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Pollution

noun

Undesirable state of the natural environment being contaminated with harmful substances as a consequence of human activities.

The state of being polluted. Synonyms: befoulment, defilement.

The act of contaminating or polluting; including (either intentionally or accidentally) unwanted substances or factors. Synonym: contamination.

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"Pollution" Quotes from Famous Books

... Baldwins and Raymonds, the Louises and Richards and Fredericks, who piously fought for the redemption of the Redeemer's sepulchre. Indeed the Holy Sepulchre could best have been freed from infidel pollution by operations from Greece, had Greece renewed her life under a dynasty worthy of the Greeks of old; and Asia, the Land of Light, might have been relieved from the thick darkness under which it ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 • Various

... back exhausted, trembling in every limb. Her old head hit the wall as she fell, but I knew we must not help her; it would be pollution to her if we touched her. The people all round were too frightened to move. So she fell and lay there quivering, her glittering eyes still fixed on us; and she tried to ...

— Things as They Are - Mission Work in Southern India • Amy Wilson-Carmichael

... draws! I'll to my brother: Though he hath fallen by prompture of the blood, Yet hath he in him such a mind of honour That, had he twenty heads to tender down On twenty bloody blocks, he'd yield them up Before his sister should her body stoop To such abhorr'd pollution. Then, Isabel, live chaste, and, brother, die: More than our brother is our chastity. I'll tell him yet of Angelo's request, And fit his mind to death, ...

— Measure for Measure • William Shakespeare [Collins edition]

... throughout all our cities, only an awakening of the whole Christian conscience and intelligence can save us from the importation of Parisian and Polish pollution, which is already corrupting the manhood and youth of every ...

— Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls - War on the White Slave Trade • Various

... tears, but Brady assumed an attitude which fitted him singularly well. It was not dismay, it was not chagrin—he was angry to the point of bursting. To Brady the one sin more flagrant than all others in the category of crime was failure, and in order to relieve his own conscience from the pollution of having failed he saw fit to attribute ...

— The Lever - A Novel • William Dana Orcutt

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