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defiler





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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

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 Thomas Salter

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

From The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series by Rafael Sabatini

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 Anthony Collins




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