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n. - The state of being polluted.

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  • In fact, I plan on doing a lot of so-called defilement right away.
  • What is this "defilement" of the world in which these souls have been imprisoned?
  • Judging the calibre of the artists involved though, I can't imagine that there's any kind of defilement going on.
  • He feels the seduction of a poor girl by a rich man to be something atrocious, a kind of defilement, something quite different from her seduction by
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