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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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
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
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
Insanely he switched on the electric torch and flashed it up and down the niche, though in the dazzling moonlight its rays were but a small circular soilure.
From The Judge by Rebecca West
The delicate "baby blue" attracted him by its perishability, its suggestion of impossible refinements beyond the soilure and dust of his own grimy circumstances.
From In Exile and Other Stories by Mary Hallock Foote
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