Usually means: Contamination or pollution of purity.
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  1. defilement: Merriam-Webster
  2. defilement: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. defilement: Collins English Dictionary
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  5. Defilement, defilement: Wordnik
  6. defilement: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. defilement: Wiktionary
  8. Defilement, defilement: Dictionary.com
  9. Defilement: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Defilement: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. defilement: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. defilement: Rhymezone
  13. Defilement: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. defilement: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. defilement: FreeDictionary.org
  16. defilement: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. defilement: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. defilement: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. defilement: Legal dictionary

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  1. defilement: Encyclopedia

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  1. Glossary of Unusual Sexual Practices (No longer online)

(Note: See defile as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (defilement)

noun:  The act of defiling.
noun:  The state of being defiled.
noun:  (military) The protection of the interior walls of a fortification from enfilading fire, as by covering them, or by a high parapet on the exposed side.

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