vitiation

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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 Pinkham, Lydia Estes

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 Watson, William Davy

An ordinary single mantle burner causes as much vitiation as two or three persons.

From Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization by Luckiesh, Matthew

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 Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

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 Guerney, Bernard Guilbert