defilement
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It was and is a project of displacement and defilement meant to reverse progress and shame the proponents of that progress.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 5, 2024
Without fanfare or warning, P&D no longer looks like a bizarre defilement, breach or disruption of anything at all.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2019
In 1985, he condemned as “a defilement of history” a visit by President Ronald Reagan and West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl to a military cemetery in Bitburg, Germany, where some SS soldiers had been buried.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2015
"Moreover the main provisions of this bill were designed to stem the issue of defilement and rape which in the minds of Ugandans is a more pressing and urgent matter that needs to be addressed."
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2012
It reminded me that even the dead possessed HaShem’s sanctity and divine beauty and that no manner of defilement could take that away.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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