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Pollution

noun

Undesirable state of the natural environment being contaminated with harmful substances as a consequence of human activities.

The state of being polluted. Synonyms: befoulment, defilement.

The act of contaminating or polluting; including (either intentionally or accidentally) unwanted substances or factors. Synonym: contamination.

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"Pollution" Quotes from Famous Books

... terror into your hearts and weakness into your councils, so that you shall be confounded and flee like women. He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and put others in their stead. For God will no longer endure the pollution of his sanctuary; he ...

— Romola • George Eliot

... painting, reduced to beg or buy flattery from each needy rhetorician or hireling poet! I weep to think on this stain, this dishonourable stain, to thy illustrious blood! And yet, would to God! would to God! this was all the pollution ...

— Dialogues of the Dead • Lord Lyttelton

... discovery!) which has, in conjunction with swift steamships, rendered the destruction of whales a matter of ease and deadly certainty. It is this which is being used on the Irish as on the Scandinavian coast, resulting in the pollution of the air and water by the carcases of the slaughtered beasts from which the oil has been extracted. This revolting butchery, without foresight or intelligence, is carried on solely for the satisfaction of human greed, and apparently will be stopped only by the extinction of ...

— More Science From an Easy Chair • Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester

... Cardinal Bellarmino told him that he had inflicted as much harm on Christendom by his Pastor Fido as Luther and Calvin by their heresies. He retorted with a sarcasm which has not been transmitted to us, but which may probably have reflected on the pollution of Christian morals by the Jesuits. In 1612 Guarini died at Venice, whither he was summoned by one of his innumerable and ...

— Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 - The Catholic Reaction • John Addington Symonds

... and seclusion, By guardian angels led, Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives whom ...

— The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 - Sorrow and Consolation • Various

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