Vitiation

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

  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.
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           The vitiation that breeds evil acts.     --G. Eliot.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  vitiation
       n : nullification by the destruction of the legal force;
           rendering null; "the vitiation of the contract"