defiler
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He was the primal traitor, the earliest defiler of the Party’s purity.
From "1984" by George Orwell
Therefore he was defiled and a defiler of others.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
This style of dissipation is the abettor of pride, the instigator of jealousy, the sacrificial altar of health, the defiler of the soul, the avenue of lust, and the curse of the town.
From The Abominations of Modern Society by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage
The impulse to crush the defiler was checked by the sudden appearance of two men inside the curtains.
From Graustark by George Barr McCutcheon
Between 1710 and 1729 Anthony Collins was lampooned, satirized, and gravely denounced from pulpit and press as England’s most insidious defiler of church and state.
From A Discourse Concerning Ridicule and Irony in Writing (1729) by Anthony Collins
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