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to defilement
noun
The act of defiling.
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They are always pure and are not subject to defilement.
It was a near thing, though, & if the sphere had found its mark, the incident would have been tantamount to defilement of a national monument, for Miss G. woman & girl, has very likely rendered "The Star-Spangled Banner" in line of duty more often than any other American We suggest that for the next soccer night at the Garden she be surrounded by an honor guard of alert Marines.
(I learned never to wear white, since that seemed to elicit the most frenzied and obscene onslaughts of verbal abuse. I'm not sure if the color simply made me more conspicuous among the women hoping to tiptoe unmolested past the construction site, or if the connotation of purity turns men's thoughts to defilement).
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Most study participants believed that women and girls were more at risk of HIV infection than men owing to rape, defilement and power imbalances between men and women with regard to sexuality.
To put an Islamic center so close, they say, would amount to a defilement.
At the same time the Nazis used propaganda to promulgate the concept of Rassenschande (race defilement) to justify the need for a restrictive law.
And the judge in the high court in Meru declared: "By failing to enforce existing defilement laws, the police have contributed to the development of a culture of tolerance for pervasive sexual violence against girl children and impunity".
In some instances, he says, parents don't report cases of defilement to police as they opt to settle out-of-court - in other cases, "even if they report, most of them withdraw the cases".
In 1990 women's rights activists in Uganda successfully lobbied to amend the Defilement Law, raising the age of sexual consent for adolescent females from fourteen to eighteen years old and increasing the maximum sentence to death by hanging.
He adds that there are no initiatives to help rehabilitate defilement victims, most of whom end up in early marriages that drop them further into poverty.
If a Hindu "breaks caste" by becoming either a Muslim or a Christian, a death ceremony is conducted, the relatives bathe to purge their defilement, and the person's name is never mentioned again.
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