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      "From Middle English pollucion, from Anglo-Norman pollutiun, Middle French pollution, pollucion, and their source, post-classical Latin poll\u016bti\u014d (\u201cdefilement, desecration; nocturnal emission\u201d) (4th century), from the participial stem of pollu\u014d (\u201cto soil, defile, contaminate\u201d), from por- (\u201cbefore\u201d) + -lu\u014d (\u201cto smear\u201d), related to lutum (\u201cmud\u201d) and lu\u0113s (\u201cfilth\u201d). Compare Ancient Greek \u03bb\u1fe6\u03bc\u03b1 (l\u00fbma, \u201cfilth, dirt, disgrace\u201d) and \u03bb\u1fe6\u03bc\u03b1\u03be (l\u00fbmax, \u201crubbish, refuse\u201d), Old Irish loth (\u201cmud, dirt\u201d), Lithuanian lutynas (\u201cpool, puddle\u201d)."
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            "mean": "Physical contamination, now especially the contamination of the environment by harmful substances, or by disruptive levels of noise, light etc. \nPollution levels are almost always higher in cities rather than the countryside, what with the cars, industry and so on.\n2006,  Edwin Black,  chapter 1, in  Internal Combustion\u200e:If successful, Edison and Ford\u2014in 1914\u2014would move society away from the  hazards of gasoline cars: air and water pollution, noise and noxiousness, constant coughing and the undeniable rise in cancers caused by smoke exhaust particulates.\n2018 July 13,  Matthew Taylor,  The Guardian\u200e:Schools across the country are moving to ban the school run amid growing concern about the devastating impact of air pollution on young people\u2019s health.\n2019,  George Monbiot,  \u201cCars are killing us. Within 10 years, we must phase them out\u201d, in  Guardian.:Pollution now kills three times as many people worldwide as Aids, tuberculosis and malaria combined."
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            "mean": "Something that pollutes; a pollutant."
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            "mean": "(now rare) The desecration of something holy or sacred; defilement, profanation. \n1667,  John Milton,  \u201cBook XII\u201d, in  Paradise Lost.\u00a0, London:    ,\u00a0, \u2192OCLC; republished as  Paradise Lost in Ten Books:\u00a0, London: Basil Montagu Pickering\u00a0, 1873, \u2192OCLC:Men who attend the Altar, and should most / Endevor Peace: thir strife pollution brings / Upon the Temple it self .\n1869,  Mark Twain ,  The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims\u2019 Progress;\u00a0, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company.\u00a0, \u2192OCLC: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."
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            "mean": "(now archaic) The ejaculation of semen outside of sexual intercourse, especially a nocturnal emission. \n1839,  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, Gonorrh\u0153'a dormien'tium, G. oneirog'onos, G. Vera, G. libidino'sa, Proflu'vium Sem'inis, Spermatorrh\u0153'a, Paronir'ia salax, Night pollution."
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            "mean": "Moral or spiritual corruption; impurity, degradation, defilement. \n1813 January 27,  ,  Pride and Prejudice:\u00a0, volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London:     for T Egerton,\u00a0, \u2192OCLC:She condescended to wait on them at Pemberley, in spite of that pollution which its woods had received."
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