The act of polluting.

Defilement; uncleanness; impurity; the state of being polluted.

In the Jewish economy, legal or ceremonial uncleanness, which disqualified a person for sacred services or for common intercourse with the people, or rendered any thing unfit for sacred use.

In medicine, the involuntary emission of semen in sleep.

In a religious sense, guilt, the effect of sin; idolatry.