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Vitiation

noun
1.
Nullification by the destruction of the legal force; rendering null.





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"Vitiation" Quotes from Famous Books



... other question—how rightly to estimate a human being; what constitutes a real vitiation of character, and how to distinguish, without either denying the good or making light of the evil; how to be just to the popular theories, and yet not to blind ourselves to their shallowness and injustice—that is a problem for us, for the solution of ...
— Short Studies on Great Subjects • James Anthony Froude
... island whereon the squadron of Communipaw was thus propitiously thrown is a matter of some dispute, and has already undergone considerable vitiation—a melancholy proof of the instability of all sublunary things, and the vanity of all our hopes of lasting fame; for who can expect his name will live to posterity, when even the names of mighty islands are thus soon lost in contradiction ...
— Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete • Washington Irving


Words linked to "Vitiation" :   nullification, override, vitiate


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