The conclusion would be just, if the portion which is seen of the case were the whole of it; but there is another portion overlooked, which vitiates the result.
The omission is no defect in them as abstract or hypothetical sciences, but it vitiates them in their practical application as branches of a comprehensive social science.
The same curse of suffering vitiates Agrippa's ingenious parable and the joyful humility of Dante's celestial friends, and renders both equally irrelevant to human conditions.
Language vitiates the experience it expresses, but thereby makes the burden of one moment relevant to that of another.
A standard candle when burning vitiates the air in a room almost as much as an adult person.
An ordinary kerosene lamp vitiates the atmosphere as much as a half-dozen persons.
Its luminous efficiency gives it an advantage over other open gas-flames in lighting rooms, because for the same amount of light it vitiates the air and exhausts the oxygen to a less degree than the others.
This literature so vitiates the taste, so corrupts the imagination, and so sullies the heart, that its readers can see no merit and find no relish in works not highly spiced with vice, crime, or disorderly passion.
Again, the pivot is apt to wear, destroying the equality of length of the points from the centre of the pivot; and in the third place the shape of the points of calipers as usually made vitiates the correctness of the measurements.
As Diday succinctly expresses it: "In the one case the poison vitiatesonly the elements of nutrition; in the other it vitiates at the same time those of formation and those of nutrition.
If failure of the power to be influenced vitiates life, presence of the power to influence vitiates death.
His inability is intrinsic to the act, it vitiates the very substance of the act; her inability to present ova is not intrinsic to the act, they say.
There is in reality no such thing as a good effect from an evil means or cause; the evil means or cause essentially and substantially vitiates the effect.
Falsehood vitiates a poem, a painting, exactly as it does a life.
The habit of lying carried into fiction vitiates the best work, and perhaps it is easier to avoid it in pure romance than in the so-called novels of "every-day life.
We do not mean only that the reader does not believe their stories of personal adventure, and regards them personally as "frauds," but that this quality of deception vitiates all their work, as seen from a literary point of view.
As to the originality of the form which he employed, it is impossible to agree with Principal Shairp; indeed, he vitiates his whole case by comparing Keble to George Herbert and Henry Vaughan.
This false note vitiates the whole book; we are conscious of an under-current of rebellion as we read it.
This vitiates no air, gives off no perceptible heat.
Non-recognition of these general truths vitiates moral speculation at large.
It may be considered as the canker of life, that destroys its vigour, and checks its improvement, that creeps on with hourly depredations, and taints and vitiates what it cannot consume.
Any selfish or secondary motive vitiates a work of art, as it vitiates a religious life.
Here we come upon the unobserved fault and flaw, which entirely vitiates the Utilitarian structure.
A holy and pious end does formally sanctify those means, while a wicked end vitiates them.
It is the omission to discuss the conditions which render geometrical (and mechanical) experience possible, to my mind, which vitiates the empirical conclusions of Helmholtz and Erdmann.
For such are the effects of subjecting man to slavery, that it destroys every human principle, vitiates the mind, instills ideas of unlawful cruelties, and eventually subverts the springs of government.
Such are the effects of subjecting man to slavery, that it destroys every human principle, vitiates the mind, instills ideas of unlawful cruelties, and subverts the springs of government.
And yet all resistance, where and in so far as carried out, vitiates temper and benevolence.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vitiates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
