vitiation

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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

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 Douglas, Amanda Minnie

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)

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 James, William

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