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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

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The act of labefying or making weak; the state of being weakened; decay; ruin.

There is in it such a

labefaction

of all principles as may be injurious to morality.

Johnson.

Noun.

[L. labefactio, from labefacio, labo, to totter, and facio, to make.]

A weakening or loosening; a failing; decay; downfall; ruin.