I must air the church,it is polluted with foul smells.

But the next verse is polluted by ending with a most inharmonious letter; "Frugifera et ferta arva

Insulted, disgraced, polluted in the face of hundreds, I was capable of any act of desperation.

At the ceremony called Ntonjane the young girls "are degraded and polluted at the very threshold of womanhood, and every spark of virtuous feeling annihilated" (197, 207, 185).

Among the Tiyans of Malabar a girl is thought to be polluted for four days from the beginning of her first menstruation.