Definition of "soilure" [soil•ure]

• Soiling or the condition of being soiled. (noun)
• A blot, stain, or smudge. (noun)

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• "For a few years his power increased, without one base measure, without any soilure on the blazon of increasing prosperity."
• "Then go all over the ham with a dull knife, scraping off every bit of removable grease or soilure."
• "We see in all his private and political life "the soilure of his revolutionary origin," — proofs that he loved money and power far more than he loved honor, and himself far more than his country or mankind."