defilement
pronunciation
How to pronounce defilement in British English:
UK [dɪ'faɪlmənt]
How to pronounce defilement in American English:
US [dɪ'faɪlmənt]
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- Noun:
- the state of being polluted
Word Origin
- defilement (n.)
- 1570s, from defile (v.) + -ment.
Example
- 1. We cannot abide this defilement !
- 2. We cannot abide this defilement . If you are truly oue ally , you will help us destroy her .
- 3. Urethral secretion little or without , majority is rare and mucous , it is scab film heal or crotch defilement only sometimes .
- 4. In the traveling exhibition that included it at the brooklyn museum , one could see dung being used as decorative adornments in many ofili works , establishing that in his art dung had no implications of defilement .
- 5. To free from sin , guilt , or other defilement .