defiling

While the last of the troops were defiling before the duke and his staff, a courier brought up despatches.

Death was brought into the world by sin; and, like all the other consequences of sin, it is loathsome and defiling.

The main body was accordingly halted, and, defiling from the centre, the troops extended on either side into the fields.

Some praised him for suppressing theft and oppression; others dispraised him for the defiling of men's wives and of virgins.

See, a column is moving towards the right, and the cavalry are defiling on the other side of the road!