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With regards to the word ‘defile’, where does it come from?
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It’s a latin word. It comes from the Latin word defibula, meaning “to disfigure”. The word defile is used in the Bible, in the book of Leviticus, to describe the rituals of the Israelites that required them to walk through the holy city of Jerusalem, and then to sprinkle the blood of a sacrificial lamb on their clothes. This was supposed to prevent them from being defiled by the dead bodies of the animals they had sacrificed.