defilement

Noun

Meaning

The protection of the interior walls of a fortification from an enfilading fire, as by covering them, or by a high parapet on the exposed side.

The act of defiling, or state of being defiled, whether physically or morally; pollution; foulness; dirtiness; uncleanness.

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Purity is the power to contemplate defilement. Simone Weil

The defilement of the human soul is worse than the destruction of the human body. A fuller realization of this is essential. Arthur Ponsonby

With guilt's defilement stained, without, within, How may I hope Thy cleansing grace to win? Because Thou saidst, "I have forgiven thy sin." Margaret Junkin Preston

One who gives birth cannot avoid defilement. Swahili Proverb

After this, the sons of Israel went up to the Temple and rebuilt its gates and purified the Temple from the dead bodies and from the defilement. Source: Internet

Although ethnic Armenian forces tried to keep outsiders away from Aghdam, some camera-bearing visitors slipped in and their photos of the mosque’s defilement outraged Azerbaijanis. Source: Internet

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