In fact, I plan on doing a lot of so-called defilement right away. From Wordnik.com. [Acorna's Rebels]
What is this "defilement" of the world in which these souls have been imprisoned?. From Wordnik.com. [The Epistles of St. Peter] Reference
Judging the calibre of the artists involved though, I can't imagine that there's any kind of defilement going on. From Wordnik.com. [The Line Of Best Fit] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Collected Essays] Reference
Better a thousand times clean death than defilement. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
Christians, but not safe from defilement in the City of Churches. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference
He will not have our compliments if there is defilement behind them. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
If it were not perfectly pure it would itself be an agent of defilement. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
The latter, with eyes on the shining sword, at once denied all defilement. From Wordnik.com. [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
He brought his defilement into the most awe-inspiring sanctuary the world has ever known. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
Megacles might have starved them there, but was scrupulous to bring this defilement upon the temple. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
It is for us, the few still faithful, to keep the lustral fires pure from defilement by the unbelievers. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
They may sit down on the ground without defilement, provided it has been newly rubbed over with cow-dung. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Scudder's Tales for Little Readers, About the Heathen.] Reference
This last specific is used daily to purify their houses from the defilement occasioned by comers, and goers. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Scudder's Tales for Little Readers, About the Heathen.] Reference
It's no good sitting around and mourning the defilement of my once-perfect jacket; I need to work out how to proceed. From Wordnik.com. [What I bought this week: Acne aviator jacket] Reference
For you may rest assured that be a man ever so pure himself, he cannot escape defilement if his associates are impure. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Sayings of Epictetus] Reference
They had eagerly guarded their conduct that no ceremonial defilement might prevent their sharing in the paschal feast. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Jesus of Nazareth] Reference
The gum may have been made of the hoofs or bones of the cow, and the thought of possible defilement of caste comes in. From Wordnik.com. [India and the Indians] Reference
Pale, bleeding, dying, Roland struggled to his feet, bent on saving his good blade from the defilement of heathen hands. From Wordnik.com. [Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race] Reference
It is impossible to touch pitch without defilement, or to know where that one thoughtless yielding to temptation may lead. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference
Therefore it seems that much less should he be debarred through defilement resulting from a dream against the Sixth Commandment. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition] Reference
One earnest, sincere prayer would bring the omnipotent aid of the Spirit to cast out the evil things and cleanse the defilement. From Wordnik.com. [Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life] Reference
The Chamar ranks at the very bottom of the social scale, and contact with his person is considered to be a defilement to high-caste. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
The cruel debasement and defilement of it penetrated so deeply that he repented bitterly of the choice into which he had been betrayed. From Wordnik.com. [Drolls From Shadowland] Reference
'Recollect, Sir, with attention whether thou art not in a state of defilement in consequence of contact with the impurities of a repast. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
Besides all these were to be found numerous children, the offspring of the wretched women, learning vice and defilement from the very cradle. From Wordnik.com. [Elizabeth Fry] Reference
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