defiler

Example Sentences

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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

Ah, defiler of the altar! lie not there!

From The Story of a Mine by Harte, Bret

He was panting now with fiery indignation; a holy zeal inflamed this profligate defiler.

From The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series by Sabatini, Rafael

These extremes of the chromatic scale are each in its way most easily denied, as green, the mean of the scale, is the greatest defiler of all colours.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas