Defiling meaning

At midday the Russian baggage train, the artillery, and columns of troops were defiling through the town of Enns on both sides of the bridge.

too holy, or - what among Semites and others was the same thing - too defiling and unclean, to be eaten.

defileny were not willing to eat defiling food, they were to be broken on the wheel and killed.

On the other hand, since the isolation of the sacred, even when originally conceived in the interest of the profane, may be interpreted as self-protection on the part of the sacred as against defiling contact, taboo takes on the connotation of ascetic virtue, purity, devotion, dignity and blessedness.

Nations come and go without defiling it.