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Definition
to spoil the beauty or purity of something
in various senses, including:
- pollute a pristine lake
- harm a reputation or good name
- damage or disrespect something sacred
- take a person's virginity in a disrespectful way
- I witnessed the magnificent courage of the weak and then watched them turn into the defiled images of their tormentors.Chapter 2.17 (46% in)
- I wondered if the grotesque phantoms of their damaged spirits haunted the alcoves of the barracks for all times, recruiting others into their defiled tormented ranks with howls of gratitude as they watched the others come apart at the soul.Chapter 1.14 (57% in)
- If I can find him and if it exists and if it has the mandate to keep the Corps pure and undefiled that you say it has.Chapter 4.34 (95% in)
- I had a passion for the undefiled virtuous stand and a need to sacrifice myself for some immaculate cause.Chapter 4.42 (20% in)
There are no more uses of "defile" in The Lords of Discipline.
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