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What does defilement mean?

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Noun
  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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Hence, the Docetists taught that since Christ is holy, He could never have had the defilement of human flesh.
They wish to pursue the application of the Levitical understanding of defilement on the Church and to accept as binding all assembly judgements.
Kant proclaimed it the worst conceivable defilement of a person's humanity.
Others in our fellowship understand that this defilement by association occurs only when in public.
What's remarkable about his filmmaking is the ability to present scenes of shocking defilement without a hint of prurience or gratuitousness.
Ancient Maori who ate their adversaries as an act of defilement or humiliation transformed the act into noa.

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