cleanliness is next to godliness in All languages combined

[Show JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▼] [Hide JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▲]

{
  "etymology_text": "First recorded in a sermon by John Wesley in 1778.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "cleanliness is next to godliness",
      "name": "en-proverb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "proverb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English proverbs",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "It is important and morally sound to keep one's body and home clean; those who practice purity and wholeness are close to God."
      ],
      "id": "en-cleanliness_is_next_to_godliness-en-proverb-R8oiijtS",
      "links": [
        [
          "important",
          "important"
        ],
        [
          "morally",
          "morally"
        ],
        [
          "sound",
          "sound"
        ],
        [
          "clean",
          "clean"
        ],
        [
          "practice",
          "practice"
        ],
        [
          "purity",
          "purity"
        ],
        [
          "wholeness",
          "wholeness"
        ],
        [
          "close",
          "close"
        ],
        [
          "God",
          "God"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "John Wesley"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cleanliness is next to godliness"
}

[Show JSON for raw wiktextract data ▼] [Hide JSON for raw wiktextract data ▲]

{
  "etymology_text": "First recorded in a sermon by John Wesley in 1778.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "cleanliness is next to godliness",
      "name": "en-proverb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "proverb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English proverbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "It is important and morally sound to keep one's body and home clean; those who practice purity and wholeness are close to God."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "important",
          "important"
        ],
        [
          "morally",
          "morally"
        ],
        [
          "sound",
          "sound"
        ],
        [
          "clean",
          "clean"
        ],
        [
          "practice",
          "practice"
        ],
        [
          "purity",
          "purity"
        ],
        [
          "wholeness",
          "wholeness"
        ],
        [
          "close",
          "close"
        ],
        [
          "God",
          "God"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "John Wesley"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cleanliness is next to godliness"
}

Download raw JSONL data for cleanliness is next to godliness meaning in All languages combined (0.8kB)

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.

"cleanliness is next to godliness" meaning in All languages combined

Proverb [English]