vitiation

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Putting it aside, however, light is obtainable by means of acetylene with less attendant vitiation of the air than by means of any other gas or of oil or candles.

From Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use A Practical Handbook on the Production, Purification, and Subsequent Treatment of Acetylene for the Development of Light, Heat, and Power by Leeds, F. H. (Frank Henley)

Such of the foregoing remarks as apply to the results of the vitiation of the pure form of republican government delivered to America by Washington, I have hazarded with very great diffidence.

From The Englishwoman in America by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

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

And from that first foundation the poet may lawfully go on to bring in perverted intelligence and moral vitiation of the soul.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various

An ordinary single mantle burner causes as much vitiation as two or three persons.

From Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization by Luckiesh, Matthew