predicated

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Predicated on self—it spurns philanthropy, banishes charity, tramples on justice, despises patriotism, deals largely in the corrosive sublimate of falsehood, the elixir vitriol of revenge—the assafœtida of duplicity.

From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by Judson, L. Carroll