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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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
There, holding it in her claws, she proceeded to wash it thoroughly, sousing it up and down till there was not a vestige of soilure to be found upon it.
From The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
The soilure, now upon you, being washed off, you shall take the eternal vows and shall bury in the shadow of the cloister the criminal life you have led in the past.
From The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by Eug?ne Sue
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
A man's life, like a great river, may be limpid-pure in the beginning, and when near its source; as it grows and gains strength it is inevitably sullied and stained with earth's soilure.
From The Man Shakespeare by Frank Harris
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