Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

vitiation

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: vi-ti-a-tion
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

4

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A reduction in the value, or an impairment in the quality of something.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Moral corruption.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

An abolition or abrogation.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"1810, George Wilson, M.D., F.R.D.E. Ch. II. General Sketch of Cavendish's Scientific Researches and Discoveries, in The Life of the Honᵇˡᵉ Henry Cavendish, p. 39. […] air was universally reputed to be a simple or elementary body. It was liable, according to the phlogistians, to vitiation, by the addition to it of phlogiston […] being more or less phlogisticated, according to the degree of its power to support respiration and combustion."
"Lincoln once reprimanded a young army officer for indulging in a violent controversy with an associate. "No man who is resolved to make the most of himself," said Lincoln, "can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take the consequences, including the vitiation of his temper and the loss of self-control."

Etymology

From Latin vitiare (“to spoil, damage”).

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: vitiare

Usage

Inflected Forms

vitiations (plural) viciation (alternative)

Synonyms

degeneracy malignity turpitude baseness corruption defilement degradation depravation depravedness depravity impurity iniquity

Questions

What does vitiation mean?: A reduction in the value, or an impairment in the quality of something.
Where does vitiation come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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