“Kant proclaimed it the worst conceivable defilement of a person's humanity.”

“The doctrine that the body is essentially a mere accident or superaddition or necessary defilement to the soul, is profoundly untrue.”

“And so will all defilement of spirit, in the course of time, show its power in the flesh.”

“It is at the junction of these valleys that the plain of Mokhna ends, narrowing to a defile through which the road runs to Beisan.”

“Still I laughed, imagining the defiler, a disgruntled person with a black felt pen.”

“Schwartz's kick at the Master had thrown the adoring dog into a maniac rage against this defiler of his idol.”

“And Mr. Gosse saw him as the defiler of the purity of the English language.”