Definition of defilement

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Defilement (n.) The protection of the interior walls of a fortification from an enfilading fire, as by covering them, or by a high parapet on the exposed side..

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Clear :: Clear (v. t.) To free from impediment or incumbrance, from defilement, or from anything injurious, useless, or offensive; as, to clear land of trees or brushwood, or from stones; to clear the sight or the voice; to clear one's self from debt; -- often used with of, off, away, or out..
Defilement :: Defilement (n.) The protection of the interior walls of a fortification from an enfilading fire, as by covering them, or by a high parapet on the exposed side..
Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To clear from guilt, or from moral or ceremonial defilement; as, to purge one of guilt or crime..
Impuration :: Impuration (n.) Defilement; obscuration.
Moil :: Moil (n.) A spot; a defilement.
Purify :: Purify (v. t.) To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air..
Purify :: Purify (v. t.) To free from ceremonial or legal defilement.
Contamination :: Contamination (n.) The act or process of contaminating; pollution; defilement; taint; also, that which contaminates..
Conspurcation :: Conspurcation (n.) The act of defiling; defilement; pollution.
Purity :: Purity (n.) Freedom from guilt or the defilement of sin; innocence; chastity; as, purity of heart or of life..
Pollution :: Pollution (n.) The act of polluting, or the state of being polluted (in any sense of the verb); defilement; uncleanness; impurity..
Purification :: Purification (n.) The act or operation of cleansing ceremonially, by removing any pollution or defilement..
Clean :: Clean (superl.) Free from ceremonial defilement.
Pure :: Pure (superl.) Free from moral defilement or quilt; hence, innocent; guileless; chaste; -- applied to persons..
Impurity :: Impurity (n.) The condition or quality of being impure in any sense; defilement; foulness; adulteration.
Pollute :: Pollute (v. t.) To make foul, impure, or unclean; to defile; to taint; to soil; to desecrate; -- used of physical or moral defilement..
Assoilment :: Assoilment (n.) A soiling; defilement.
Constupration :: Constupration (n.) The act of ravishing; violation; defilement.
Clean :: Clean (superl.) Free from moral defilement; sinless; pure.
Purify :: Purify (v. t.) Hence, in figurative uses: (a) To free from guilt or moral defilement; as, to purify the heart..
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