Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Labefaction (Page: 821)

Lab`e*fac"tion (?), n. [See Labefy.] 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.