vitiation
Example Sentences
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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 Eliot, George
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
They are usually accompanied with a well-developed fetus, so that the mole may be looked upon as a twin which has undergone arrest and vitiation of development.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.
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
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)
