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soilure|ˈsɔɪljʊə(r)|
Also 4, 7 soylure.
[a. OF. soilleure (mod.F. souillure), f. soillier soil v.1
The currency of the word in the 19th cent. is prob. altogether due to the instance in Shakespeare.]
1. Soiling, sullying, staining.
1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 8501 Þe bodies hii gaderede & vorbarnde hom echon,..so þat hii were Wiþoute soylure in clannesse al out maisters þere. 1859Tennyson Elaine 7 Elaine.. Guarded the sacred shield.., Then fearing rust or soilure fashion'd for it A case of silk. 1893J. K. Ingram De Imitatione Pref. p. viii, The writing has..suffered from friction or soilure.
b. fig. (Common in recent literary use.)
1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. iv. i. 56 He merits well to haue her, that doth seeke her, Not making any scruple of her soylure, With such a hell of paine. 1873A. Cary Last Poems 114 Soilure of sin..Cannot harm thy hand so pure. 1888G. Gissing Life's Morning I. iii. 110 With minds disengaged from anxiety of casual soilure. 1890W. Watson Poems (1906) I. 29 From soilure of ignoble touch Too grandly free.
2. A stain, blot, or blemish.
1829Landor Imag. Conv. Wks. 1846 II. 235 He did not conduct him amid flowers and herbage, where a fall would have only been a soilure to our frail human nature. 1895Zangwill The Master iii. viii, Why had people besmirched the Creation with soilures of cynicism. |