vitiation
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As I interpret his melancholy, then, it was not merely an accidental vitiation of his humors, though it was doubtless also that.
From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by William James
Perhaps this is a vitiation due to that malady of mankind called civilization; but a woman in squalid poverty would exert no fascination over me, were she attractive as Homer's Galatea, the fair Helen.
From The Magic Skin by Ellen Marriage
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 Eugène Sue
Like most of the papers on which we subsequently worked together, the object was not merely to amuse, but also to strike at some prevailing literary craze or vitiation of taste.
From The Bon Gaultier Ballads by Richard Doyle
He had a contempt for cheap and plain belongings, as leaning insensibly to vitiation of taste.
From Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart by Amanda Minnie Douglas
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