vitiate
verb (used with object)
to impair the quality of; make faulty; spoil.
unvitiated
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a word derived from
vitiate.
Example Sentences
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And thus, Noizet believes, the man's thought was transferred to the minds of the others without the mediation of eye or ear, etc., and hence unvitiated by the words that had been spoken.
From Clever Hans (The horse of Mr. Von Osten): A contribution to experimental animal and human psychology by Oskar Pfungst
In the brute, the gratification of the natural appetites is regular, uniform, subject to no vicissitudes or excesses, and entails no injury on his nature, because undisturbed and unvitiated by the false illusions of imagination.
From The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 by Friedrich Schlegel
Even with their noses touching the moth, none of my household has been able to perceive the faintest odour; not even the youngest, whose sensibility is as yet unvitiated.
From Social Life in the Insect World by Bernard Miall
I have a sort of valet and factotum, an excellent, respectable servant, whose spelling is so unvitiated by non-phonetic superfluities that he writes night as nit.
From Impressions of Theophrastus Such by George Eliot
That defiant impulse to which he had just now been on the point of yielding had not dared so much as to have shown its face before his unvitiated will.
From Idolatry A Romance by Julian Hawthorne
