vitiation
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Next, in regard to vitiation of the air, by which is meant the alteration in its composition resulting from the admixture of products of combustion with it.
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 F. H. (Frank Henley) Leeds
Other disease makes itself known by aches or appearance, but the blood courses on with no sign of vitiation, carrying its poison to every nerve and fibre of the body.
From Treatise on the Diseases of Women by Lydia Estes Pinkham
No man ever struggled to retain power over a mixed multitude without suffering vitiation; his standard must be their lower needs and not his own best insight.
From Romola by George Eliot
There was a vitiation of the atmosphere that was not helped by a strong bodily odor, a stout and sturdy smell that came near to sickening Mr. Thompson.
From Burned Bridges by Bertrand W. Sinclair
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
