Vitiation

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of vitiating
  • noun. A rendering invalid or illegal: as, the vitiation of a contract or a court.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of vitiating, or the state of being vitiated; depravation; corruption; invalidation.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. a reduction in the value, or an impairment in the quality of something
  • noun. moral corruption
  • noun. an abolition or abrogation
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  • noun. nullification by the destruction of the legal force; rendering null
  • Word Usage
    "But here again enter error of perspective, and vitiation due to the bias of love."
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