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What does defilement mean?

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  1. The act of defiling.
  2. The state of being defiled.
  3. (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.
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I do not have at hand the books and tools necessary to trace the development of this teaching on defilement.
Among these communities, economic interdependence was inescapable but the boundaries of defilement remained.
Jesus seems neither to have confirmed nor to have denied that eating impure food leads to ritual defilement.
Kant proclaimed it the worst conceivable defilement of a person's humanity.
But this issue of association and defilement, as some have been teaching and practising among us, has a number of serious problems.
Hence, the Docetists taught that since Christ is holy, He could never have had the defilement of human flesh.

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