vitiation
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Deare madam, heare me: You had a noble husband, while he livd; And I beleive That no perswasion cold have forcd you yeild To vitiation of his honord bed, Not with a prince.
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
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
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 Bernard Guilbert Guerney
You will remember that he ascribes this circumstance to some unknown vice in the ovaries of the queen; but he was far from suspecting that retarded fecundation had been the cause of vitiation.
From New observations on the natural history of bees by François Huber
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
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