vitiate

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  1. transitive verb To reduce the value or impair the quality of.
  2. transitive verb To corrupt morally; debase.
  3. transitive verb To make ineffective; invalidate. See Synonyms at corrupt.

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  • 'Many causes may vitiate a writer's judgment of his own works .... —  Life Of Johnson
  • At my uncle's, religion was far more tiresome, because they made it an employment; with my master I thought no more of it, though my sentiments continued the same: I had no companions to vitiate my morals: I became idle, careless, and obstinate, but my principles were not impaired. —  The Confessions of J J Rousseau
  • This economy was, however, less the effect of prudence than that love of simplicity, which, even to this day, the use of the most expensive tables has not been able to vitiate. —  The Confessions of J J Rousseau
  • I do not know whether the appearance of the head will vitiate the interest of your proposed publication, but I hope not, as the use of it will be of a very different nature. —  Philip Gilbert Hamerton
  • How far his inattention or misconduct in this particular shall be deemed to vitiate the ballots of a county, appears to be left to the judgment of the canvassers. —  Memoirs of Aaron Burr
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin vitiāre, vitiāt-, from vitium, fault.

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  1. Formerly also viciate; from Latin vi-tiatus, PP. cf vitiare(later Italian viziare = Spanish Portuguese viciar = French vicicr), make faulty, injure, spoil, corrupt, from vitium, a fault, imperfection: see vice.
 

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