vitiation
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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
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
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 William Davy Watson
Perhaps this is a vitiation due to that malady of mankind called civilization; but a woman in squalid poverty would exert no fascination over me, were she attractive as Homer's Galatea, the fair Helen.
From The Magic Skin by Ellen Marriage
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
