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pollution
English
Etymology
From Middle English pollucion, from Anglo-Norman pollutiun, Middle French pollution, pollucion, and their source, post-classical Latin poll?ti? (“defilement, desecration; nocturnal emission”) (4th century), from the participial stem of pollu? (“to soil, defile, contaminate”), from por- (“before”) + -lu? (“to smear”), related to lutum (“mud”) and lu?s (“filth”). Compare Ancient Greek ???? (lûma, “filth, dirt, disgrace”) and ????? (lûmax, “rubbish, refuse”), Old Irish loth (“mud, dirt”), Lithuanian lutynas (“pool, puddle”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /p??l(j)u???n/
- (US) IPA(key): /p??lu??n/
Noun
pollution (countable and uncountable, plural pollutions)
- (now rare) The desecration of something holy or sacred; defilement, profanation. [from 14th c.]
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, ch. XII:
- Men who attend the Altar, and should most / Endevor Peace: thir strife pollution brings / Upon the Temple it self […].
- 1869, Mark Twain, Innocents Abroad:
- [T]he most gallant knights that ever wielded sword wasted their lives away in a struggle to seize it and hold it sacred from infidel pollution.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, ch. XII:
- (now archaic) The ejaculation of semen outside of sexual intercourse, especially a nocturnal emission. [from 14th c.]
- 1839, Robley Dunglison, Medical Lexicon, Blanchard, page 492:
- When occasioned by a voluntary act it is called, simply, Pollution or Masturbation (q.v.); when excited, during sleep, by lascivious dreams, it takes the name Noctur'nal pollution, Exoneiro'sis, Oneirog'mos, Oneirog'onos, Gonorrhœ'a dormien'tium, G. oneirog'onos, G. Vera, G. libidino'sa, Proflu'vium Sem'inis, Spermatorrhœ'a, Paronir'ia salax, Night pollution.
- 1839, Robley Dunglison, Medical Lexicon, Blanchard, page 492:
- Moral or spiritual corruption; impurity, degradation, defilement. [from 15th c.]
- 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice:
- She condescended to wait on them at Pemberley, in spite of that pollution which its woods had received.
- 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice:
- Physical contamination, now especially the contamination of the environment by harmful substances, or by disruptive levels of noise, light etc. [from 18th c.]
- 2018, Matthew Taylor, The Guardian, 13 July:
- Schools across the country are moving to ban the school run amid growing concern about the devastating impact of air pollution on young people’s health.
- 2019, George Monbiot, Cars are killing us. Within 10 years, we must phase them out in the Guardian.
- Pollution now kills three times as many people worldwide as Aids, tuberculosis and malaria combined.
- 2018, Matthew Taylor, The Guardian, 13 July:
- Something that pollutes; a pollutant. [from 17th c.]
Synonyms
- soilage
- (masturbation): self-pollution
Antonyms
- conservation
- purity
Derived terms
Related terms
- polluter
Translations
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin poll?ti?. Synchronically, from polluer +? -tion.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?.ly.sj??/
Noun
pollution f (plural pollutions)
- pollution
Synonyms
- profanation
- souillure
Related terms
- polluant
- pollutif
Further reading
- “pollution” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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dirtiness
English
Etymology
dirty +? -ness
Noun
dirtiness (usually uncountable, plural dirtinesses)
- The state or quality of being dirty.
- 1922, Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt, New York: P.F. Collier & Son, Chapter XI, section IV, p. 150, [1]
- Paul was distressingly clean, but Babbitt reveled in a good sound dirtiness, in not having to shave till his spirit was moved to it.
- 1948, Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country, New York: Scribner, 1987, Chapter 6,
- So they walked till they came to Claremont and Kumalo was shocked by its shabbiness and dirtiness, and the closeness of the houses, and the filth in the streets.
- 1922, Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt, New York: P.F. Collier & Son, Chapter XI, section IV, p. 150, [1]
Synonyms
- filthiness
Translations
Anagrams
- disinsert, disinters
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- dirtiness meaning
- dirtiness definition
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