| Ancient Maori who ate their adversaries as an act of defilement or humiliation transformed the act into noa. |
| Among these communities, economic interdependence was inescapable but the boundaries of defilement remained. |
| Kant proclaimed it the worst conceivable defilement of a person's humanity. |
| What's remarkable about his filmmaking is the ability to present scenes of shocking defilement without a hint of prurience or gratuitousness. |
| But compared with sickness that is always real and palpable, defilement not resulting from disease, is fictional. |
| Lepers were separated in leper hospitals built with private charity because people were afraid of defilement. |
