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n. - The act of dirtying something.

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  • Then go all over the ham with a dull knife, scraping off every bit of removable grease or soilure.
  • For a few years his power increased, without one base measure, without any soilure on the blazon of increasing prosperity.
  • All hearts sink; Latinus goes with torn raiment, in dismay at his wife's doom and his city's downfall, defiling his hoary hair with soilure of sprinkled dust.
  • Elysium, some few of us to possess the happy fields; till length of days completing time's circle takes out the ingrained soilure and leaves untainted the ethereal sense...
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