soilure
Americannoun
noun
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the act of soiling or the state of being soiled
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a stain or blot
Etymology
Origin of soilure
1250–1300; Middle English soylure < Old French soilleure, equivalent to soill ( ier ) ( see soil 2) + -eure (< Latin -ātūra; see -ate 1, -ure)
Example Sentences
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A sudden savage light in her blurred eyes betrayed the passion of the mother-love, through all the filth and soilure of her degradation.
From The Air Trust by George Allan England
And she was intimately conscious of a soilure, a moral stain, as the result of her recent contacts with the man of business in her husband.
From Leonora by Arnold Bennett
The soilure of the earth upon it could not make his splendid little face funny.
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 4, August 1908 by Various
With exasperating deliberation he fetched out a bulky pocket-book, and extracted therefrom a packet, which proved to be a thick cream envelope, carefully protected from soilure by an outer wrapping of paper.
From The Red Symbol by John Ironside
I've recked not of failure and losses, nor shrunk from the soilure of strife For thy magical glamour was on me and art is the moonlight of life.
From An Anthology of Australian Verse by Bertram Stevens
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