vitiation
- a word derived from vitiate.
Example Sentences
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There is no pathological phenomena more freely attested than the sudden vitiation of the secretions by intense mental disturbances.
From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Tuttle, Hudson
If this be true of news and of its vitiation through the Press, it is still truer of opinions and suggested ideas.
From The Free Press by Belloc, Hilaire
An ordinary single mantle burner causes as much vitiation as two or three persons.
From Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization by Luckiesh, Matthew
But there is also, independently of this vitiation to which the wines are liable, another cause for the inferior quality of those wines which are really the produce of the islands.
From A Voyage Round the World, Volume I Including Travels in Africa, Asia, Australasia, America, etc., etc., from 1827 to 1832 by Holman, James
Will society do for the safety of this young soul what the doctor does for the body, when it is a question of contending against hereditary vitiation?
From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 4 of 6 by Sue, Eugène
