Meaning of soilure | Babel Free

Definitions

Making or becoming dirty; soiling, staining.

Examples

“He merits well to haue her, that doth seeke her, Not making any scruple of her soylure […].”

“Much more powerful than moral enthusiasm is the disinclination of the immaculate flesh to risk⟳ the soilure of the streets.”

“Passion here is a soilure of the wits, We're told, and Love⟳ a cross for them to bear⟳ ...”

“[…] the fire which was to have⟳ lasted to the end⟳ of them, before which in the days before he was able to buy⟳ the stove he would enter⟳ after his four-mile walk⟳ from the mill and find⟳ her, the shape⟳ of her narrow back and haunches squatting, one narrow spread⟳ hand shielding her face⟳ from the blaze over which the other hand held the skillet, had already fallen to a dry, light⟳ soilure of dead ashes when the sun rose yesterday […]”

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