defilement

Example Sentences

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She knew the defilements of which they had been guilty.

From A Minstrel in France by Lauder, Harry, Sir

That fountain of Christ's blood runs not dry but runs along with the believer, for the cleansing of his after pollutions, of his defilements, even in the very light itself.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

But she dominated, haunted with her grace, the infernal dinning sound of unspeakable defilements.

From Cytherea by Hergesheimer, Joseph

Fabri found solace to his offended senses in thinking of his dear Lord lying in a hard manger, amongst all the defilements of the oxen.

From The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London by Allen, P. S. (Percy Stafford)

He would still wander away in his accustomed haunts, and purify his soul from her alehouse defilements, by copious draughts of the fresh nectar of natural beauty imbibed from the sylvan scenery around him.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. by Various