vitiation
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (1)
- nullification by the destruction of the legal force; rendering null“the vitiation of the contract”Type of nullification, override
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Vi′ti·a′tion noun
Origin: 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.— pseud. of Mary Ann
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54