Labefaction

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Labefaction \Lab`e*fac"tion\, n. [See {Labefy}.]
     The act of labefying or making weak; the state of being
     weakened; decay; ruin.
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           There is in it such a labefaction of all principles as


           may be injurious to morality.            --Johnson.
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