defilement

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Produc’d before the bloom of Time; Ambition’s maiden Sin, in Heaven conceiv’d, And who could have believ’d Defilement could in purity begin, And bright eternal Day be soil’d with Sin?

From The History of the Devil As Well Ancient as Modern: In Two Parts by Defoe, Daniel

They appear to have study'd all the Arts of an easie Defilement, and to have left out no Colours that were likely to Stain.

From A Letter to A.H. Esq.; Concerning the Stage (1698) and The Occasional Paper No. IX (1698) by Anonymous

Fear lest thou take Defilement from the two that gave thee birth?

From Oedipus King of Thebes Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes by Murray, Gilbert