Hypertext Webster Gateway: "vitiation"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Vitiation \Vi`ti*a"tion\, n. [L. vitiatio.]
The act of vitiating, or the state of being vitiated;
depravation; corruption; invalidation; as, the vitiation of
the blood; the vitiation of a contract.
The vitiation that breeds evil acts. --G. Eliot.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
vitiation
n : nullification by the destruction of the legal force;
rendering null; "the vitiation of the contract"
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