Associations to the word «Defilement»

Wiktionary

DEFILEMENT, noun. The act of defiling.
DEFILEMENT, noun. The state of being defiled.
DEFILEMENT, noun. (military) The protection of the interior walls of a fortification from enfilading fire, as by covering them, or by a high parapet on the exposed side.

Dictionary definition

DEFILEMENT, noun. The state of being polluted.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope