defiler

Example Sentences

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Therefore he was defiled and a defiler of others.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

He was the primal traitor, the earliest defiler of the Party’s purity.

From "1984" by George Orwell

Between 1710 and 1729 Anthony Collins was lampooned, satirized, and gravely denounced from pulpit and press as England’s most insidious defiler of church and state.

From A Discourse Concerning Ridicule and Irony in Writing (1729) by Collins, Anthony

Ah, defiler of the altar! lie not there!

From The Story of a Mine by Harte, Bret

“The son of Bayakala saith that it will be soon, so that thou mayest yet eat of thy defiler ere thou art gone to ghostland.”

From Witch-Doctors by Beadle, Charles