Synonyms for pollution

Grammar : Noun

Spell : puh-loo-shuh n

Phonetic Transcription : pəˈlu ʃən

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Définition of pollution

Origin : mid-14c., "discharge of semen other than during sex," later, "desecration, defilement" (late 14c.), from Late Latin pollutionem (nominative pollutio) "defilement," noun of action from past participle stem of Latin polluere "to soil, defile, contaminate," from por- "before" + -luere "smear," from PIE root *leu- "dirt; make dirty" (cf. Latin lutum "mud, mire, clay," lues "filth;" Greek lyma "filth, dirt, disgrace," lymax "rubbish, refuse;" Old Irish loth "mud, dirt;" Lithuanian lutynas "pool, puddle"). Sense of "contamination of the environment" first recorded c.1860, but not common until c.1955.

noun dirtiness, contamination

Example sentences :

And its incorporation is by no means equivalent to the pollution of epic.
Extract from : « An Essay on Satire, Particularly on the Dunciad » by Walter Harte

Mere contact with an unbaptized person was considered a pollution.
Extract from : « Roman Catholicism in Spain » by Anonymous

But to learn any other language was pollution to a Jew, to teach a Jew any other was pollution to a Christian.
Extract from : « Dreamers of the Ghetto » by I. Zangwill

To protect properly a well from gross pollution, two precautions should be observed.
Extract from : « Rural Hygiene » by Henry N. Ogden

Limestone is even more dangerous if any pollution exists in the vicinity.
Extract from : « Rural Hygiene » by Henry N. Ogden

Am I to try and cleanse my heart of this love, as if it were some pollution?
Extract from : « Olive » by Dinah Maria Craik, (AKA Dinah Maria Mulock)

Our worries about pollution of earth, oceans, and skies are not religious in nature.
Extract from : « The Civilization of Illiteracy » by Mihai Nadin

And yet the source of all this pollution and death is moderate drinking.
Extract from : « Select Temperance Tracts » by American Tract Society

Let them look at the poor inebriate wallowing in his pollution.
Extract from : « Select Temperance Tracts » by American Tract Society

The Alemanni were treated as outcasts, whose very presence was pollution.
Extract from : « The Magnificent Montez » by Horace Wyndham

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