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vitiation|vɪʃɪˈeɪʃən|
[ad. L. vitiātio (rare), or f. vitiate v.]
The action of vitiating, the fact or state of being vitiated, in senses of the verb.
1635Jackson Creed viii. xx. §5 No addition is forbidden, but such as includeth a vitiation of the text. 1658Phillips, Vitiation, a corrupting or defiling; also a deflowring. 1666G. Harvey Morb. Angl. xvii. (1672) 35 The cause of the foresaid extenuation of body..is imputed to..the bloods vitiation by malign putrid vapors, smoaking throughout the vessels. 1802Paley Nat. Theol. xxvi. (1819) 429 That vitiation of taste which frequently occurs in fevers, when every taste is irregular and every one bad. 1809W. Irving Knickerb. (1861) 61 The original name of the island..has already undergone considerable vitiation. 1843Mill Logic i. ii. §5 With the least vitiation of the truth of any propositions. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola xxv, No man ever struggled to retain power over a mixed multitude without suffering vitiation. |