Defiling [verb]

While the last of the troops were defiling before the duke and his staff, a courier brought up despatches.

Death was brought into the world by sin; and, like all the other consequences of sin, it is loathsome and defiling.

The main body was accordingly halted, and, defiling from the centre, the troops extended on either side into the fields.

Some praised him for suppressing theft and oppression; others dispraised him for the defiling of men's wives and of virgins.

See, a column is moving towards the right, and the cavalry are defiling on the other side of the road!

Hugh Davis, a white servant, was publicly flogged "before an assembly of Negroes and others," for defiling himself with a Negro.

It will be a brood of Harpies, defiling all it cannot steal.

He left me and rode toward General Woods's head of column, which was defiling through the town.

The habit of luxurious living is eating into the vitals of society, is defiling the family, and corrupting the state.

He could not enter any house, or come in contact with any person or thing, without utterly defiling them.