Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Soiling or the condition of being soiled.
- n. A blot, stain, or smudge.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of soiling, or the state of being soiled; stain or staining; tarnish or tarnishing.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Stain; pollution.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of soiling something
Etymologies
- From Old French soilleure, from soillier ("to soil"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“For a few years his power increased, without one base measure, without any soilure on the blazon of increasing prosperity.”
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873
“Then go all over the ham with a dull knife, scraping off every bit of removable grease or soilure.”
“We see in all his private and political life "the soilure of his revolutionary origin," — proofs that he loved money and power far more than he loved honor, and himself far more than his country or mankind.”
“All hearts sink; Latinus goes with torn raiment, in dismay at his wife's doom and his city's downfall, defiling his hoary hair with soilure of sprinkled dust.”
“Elysium, some few of us to possess the happy fields; till length of days completing time's circle takes out the ingrained soilure and leaves untainted the ethereal sense and pure spiritual flame.”
“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.”
“Their opposites would have convicted me (the flat and earthly comparison must be allowed) of intrusion into some Place of beauty and serenity for which the soilure of my birth disqualified me.”
“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.”
“He must feel perfectly clean and free -- fresh, as if he had washed away all the years of soilure in this morning's sea and sun and sand.”
“He knew that he was dicing with Death, but that was the very essence of his ideal; and he knew that if Death won the throw, his ideal was crowned and consummated, for ever safe from the withering touch of time, or accidental soilure.”
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A Glossary of Filth
A compilation of those nitty-gritty yucky terms for substances and situations that we prefer not to encounter. Please folks, keep it clean; avoid the overly offensive ones.
"the terms...schmutz, smegma, muck, snarge, sewerage, mecomium, sewage, sebum, toe jam, pus, sludge, backwash and 130 more...
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sabaton, sabbatarian, sabbulonarium, sabelline, sabin, sable, sabliere, sabot, sabretache, sabulous, saburration, saccade and 1593 more...
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Oily
Words and phrases that have "oil" in them.
oil, oily, olive oil, crude oil, toil, boil, trefoil, foil, roil, broil, coil, soil and 70 more...
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Words
Formerly a list of words, since evacuated and now serving as a holding pen.
blazonry, squinkered, uticated, wheatweed, gicky, circulous, ungut, thonk, spirl, raunchify, suburp, unarable and 37 more...
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yarb ...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.
- Rebecca West, The Judge Sep 12, 2009