Pollution vs Infamy - What's the difference?
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The act of polluting or the state of being polluted, especially the contamination of the environment by harmful substances.
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, chapter=1 Something that pollutes; a pollutant.
(archaic) Physical defilement.
(medicine, obsolete) The emission of semen at other times than in sexual intercourse.
* 1839 , Robley Dunglison, Medical Lexicon'', Blanchard, page 492 defines ''POLLUTION as:
The state of being infamous.
A reputation as being evil.
As nouns the difference between pollution and infamy
is that pollution is the act of polluting or the state of being polluted, especially the contamination of the environment by harmful substances while infamy is the state of being infamous.pollution
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(wikipedia pollution)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the
- The excretion of seminal liquor or sperm, at other times than during coition. 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, Gonorrhœ'a dormien'tium, G. oneirog'onos, G. Vera, G. libidino'sa, Proflu'vium Sem'inis, Spermatorrhœ'a, Paronir'ia salax, Night pollution.
Synonyms
* soilage * (masturbation) self-pollutionAntonyms
* conservation * purityDerived terms
* air pollution * light pollution * noise pollution * self-pollution * soil pollution * water pollutioninfamy
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Noun
(infamies)- "Infamy', '''infamy - they've all got it in for me!" - Kenneth Williams as Julius Caesar in ''Carry On Cleo
- "A date which will live in infamy " - Franklin D. Roosevelt in response to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour