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adulteration

[ uh-duhl-tuh-rey-shuhn ]

noun

  1. the act or process of adulterating.
  2. the state of being adulterated.
  3. something adulterated.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of adulteration1

1500–10; < Latin adulterātiōn- (stem of adulterātiō ); adulterate, -ion

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Example Sentences

Formerly, when a commodity was adulterated, it could be returned, and the courts became sorely troubled to defend an adulteration.

Commercial dealings took the most questionable forms: adulteration of products went on unchecked by any qualms of honesty.

This adulteration no doubt was one cause of its losing its well established reputation.

Probably the food which suffers most from adulteration is milk, as water can be added without the average person being the wiser.

But for the most part the acts do not impose upon district councils themselves Adulteration.

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