vitiation
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That is to say, a vitiation of taste, by indulged excesses; the wine and high feasting of their own theatre—which really made them unapt for understanding Shakspeare.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various
No man ever struggled to retain power over a mixed multitude without suffering vitiation; his standard must be their lower needs and not his own best insight.
From Romola by Eliot, George
In Everope is seen the extremity to which the vitiation here mentioned by the great moralist may sometimes be carried.
From Trevethlan (Vol 3 of 3) A Cornish Story. by Watson, William Davy
George Eliot well says that "no man ever struggled to retain power over a mixed multitude without suffering vitiation; his standard must be their lower needs, and not his own best insight."
From George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy by Cooke, George Willis
There was a vitiation of the atmosphere that was not helped by a strong bodily odor, a stout and sturdy smell that came near to sickening Mr. Thompson.
From Burned Bridges by Sinclair, Bertrand W.
