Example Sentences

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He was the primal traitor, the earliest defiler of the Party’s purity.

From "1984" by George Orwell

Therefore he was defiled and a defiler of others.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

The impulse to crush the defiler was checked by the sudden appearance of two men inside the curtains.

From Graustark by McCutcheon, George Barr

These extremes of the chromatic scale are each in its way most easily denied, as green, the mean of the scale, is the greatest defiler of all colours.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas

Ah, defiler of the altar! lie not there!

From The Story of a Mine by Harte, Bret