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Definition of Defilers
1. defiler [n] - See also: defiler
Lexicographical Neighbors of Defilers
Literary usage of Defilers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Evolution of Spiritual Man by William McIntire Lisle (1894)
"His decisive ejectment of the Temple defilers represents his attitude to the
defilers of the human body. He came to cast out Satan, and showed his power in ..."
2. An Exposition of St. Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians by John Colet (1874)
"For it is written that such defilers of the temple of God, iii. 17. God will
destroy.—However this may be, we make no doubt but that it was the Apostle's ..."
3. The New Fiction: And Other Essays on Literary Subjects by Henry Duff Traill (1897)
"Odious, as the defilers of morality and the contami- nators of the sincere milk
of Augustinian doctrines, they were formidable as unscrupulous political ..."
4. The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs by William Morris (1904)
"... Slaying them fast, whereto I help'd, mere boy As I was then; we gentles cut
them down, These burners and defilers, with great joy. Reason for that, too, ..."
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