Physical contamination, now especially the contamination of the environment by harmful substances, or by disruptive levels of noise, light etc.
Pollution levels are almost always higher in cities rather than the countryside, what with the cars, industry and so on.
Something that pollutes; a pollutant.
The desecration of something holy or sacred; defilement, profanation.
Men who attend the Altar, and should most / Endevor Peace: thir strife pollution brings / Upon the Temple it self […].
From Middle English pollucioun, pollucion (“desecration, impurity”), from Anglo-Norman pollutiun, Middle French pollution, pollucion, and their source, post-classical Latin pollūtiō (“defilement, dese...
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