vitiation

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But in my opinion there is not in the sorrowful life of Russia a more mournful phenomenon than this lackadaisicalness and vitiation of thought.

From Yama: the pit by Guerney, Bernard Guilbert

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

Why are we insensible to the gradual vitiation of the air of an unventilated room?

From A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Cutter, Calvin

In the former a leaky joint may cause the vitiation of the surrounding air as the producer-gas escapes; in the suction apparatus the same fault simply causes more air to be drawn in.

From Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants A Practice Treatise Setting Forth the Principles of Gas-Engines and Producer Design, the Selection and Installation of an Engine, Conditions of Perfect Operation, Producer-Gas Engines and Their Possibilities, the Care of Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants, with a Chapter on Volatile Hydrocarbon and Oil Engines by Mathot, R. E.

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