defile quotes

For I am the L your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDLeviticus11:44.

   Nor one feeling of vengeance presumed to defile The cause, or the men, or the Emerald Isle.

-William Drennan
  Erin, stanza 3.