vitiation
Example Sentences
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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
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 Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
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 Calvin Cutter
There is the inefficiency of the syllogism, and also the vitiation produced by its employment.
From A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning by George Jacob Holyoake
Its vitiation of the atmosphere may be counteracted by proper ventilation and there remains only the disadvantage of keeping it in order and of accidental breakage and overturning.
From Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization by Matthew Luckiesh
