defiled, ppl. a.
(dɪˈfaɪld)
[f. defile v.1 + -ed.]
Polluted, sullied.
| [c 1325 E.E. Allit. P. A. 724 Bot he com þyder ryȝt as a chylde..Harmlez, trwe and vndefylde.] 1530 Palsgr. 309/2 Defyled as a thynge that is soyled, polu. 1660 Jer. Taylor Worthy Commun. Introd. 6 Nor eat of this sacrifice with a defiled head. 1746–7 Hervey Medit. (1818) p. iii, Men of defiled habits and unclean lips. 1858 J. Martineau Stud. Chr. 154 To tear out the defiled page of the past. |
Hence † deˈfiledness.
| 1607 Hieron Wks. I. 328 The corruption and defilednesse of nature, which man brings with him into the world. 1642 Rogers Naaman 541, I speake of a defilednesse of heart. |