Definitions for Taint
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. contamination, taintverb

   the state of being contaminated

2. defile, sully, corrupt, taint, cloudverb

   place under suspicion or cast doubt upon

   "sully someone's reputation"

3. infect, taintverb

   contaminate with a disease or microorganism

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. taintcontraction

   Contraction of it ain't.

2. Etymology: Reportedly from the phrase “'tain't your balls and 'tain't your ass”.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Taintnoun

   Etymology: teinte, Fr. from the verb.

   1. A tincture; a stain.2. An insect.

   There is found in the Summer a spider called a taint, of a red colour, and so little that ten of the largest will hardly outweigh a grain. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours, b. iii.

   As killing as the canker to the rose,
   Or taint worm to the weaning herds that graze. John Milton.

   3. Infection.

   A father that breeds his son at home, can keep him better from the taint of servants than abroad. John Locke, on Education.

   But is no rank, no station, no degree,
   From this contagious taint of sorrow free. Matthew Prior.

   4. A spot; a soil; a blemish.

   Her offence
   Must be of such unnatural degree,
   That monsters it; or your forevouch’d affection
   Fall’n into taint. William Shakespeare, King Lear.

   Now I
   Unspeak mine own detraction; here abjure
   The taints and blames I laid upon myself. William Shakespeare.

   My hellhounds shall lick up the draff and filth,
   Which man’s polluting sin with taint hath shed
   On what was pure. John Milton.

2. To Taintverb

   Etymology: teindre, French.

   1. To imbue or impregnate with any thing.

   The spaniel struck
   Stiff by the tainted gale, with open nose
   Draws full upon the latent prey. James Thomson.

   2. To stain; to sully.

   We come not by the way of accusation
   To taint that honour every good tongue blesses. William Shakespeare.

   Sirens taint
   The minds of all men, whom they can acquaint
   With their attractions. George Chapman, Odyssey, b. xii.

   They the truth
   With superstitions and traditions taint. John Milton.

   Those pure immortal elements
   Eject him tainted now, and purge him off
   As a distemper. John Milton.

   3. To infect.

   Nothing taints sound lungs sooner than inspiring the breath of consumptive lungs. Gideon Harvey, on Consumptions.

   Salts in fumes contract the vesicles, and perhaps the tainted air may affect the lungs by its heat. John Arbuthnot, on Air.

   With wholesome herbage mixt, the direful bane
   Of vegetable venom taints the plain. Alexander Pope.

   4. To corrupt.

   A sweet-bread you found it tainted or fly-blown. Jonathan Swift.

   The yellow tinging plague
   Internal vision taints. James Thomson, Spring.

   5. A corrupt contraction of attaint.

3. To Taintverb

   To be infected; to be touched.

   Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane
   I cannot taint with fear. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

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1. taint

   Taint refers to a trace of contamination, corruption, or undesirable quality or substance, often in a metaphorical way. This could relate to a literal substance that has been polluted, a reputation that has been tarnished, or a situation that has become compromised or adversely affected in some way. As a verb, taint means to contaminate or pollute something.

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1. Taintnoun

   a thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect

2. Taintnoun

   an injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner

3. Taintverb

   to thrust ineffectually with a lance

4. Taintverb

   to injure, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner

5. Taintverb

   to hit or touch lightly, in tilting

6. Taintverb

   to imbue or impregnate with something extraneous, especially with something odious, noxious, or poisonous; hence, to corrupt; to infect; to poison; as, putrid substance taint the air

7. Taintverb

   fig.: To stain; to sully; to tarnish

8. Taintverb

   to be infected or corrupted; to be touched with something corrupting

9. Taintverb

   to be affected with incipient putrefaction; as, meat soon taints in warm weather

10. Taintnoun

    tincture; hue; color; tinge

11. Taintnoun

    infection; corruption; deprivation

12. Taintnoun

    a blemish on reputation; stain; spot; disgrace

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1. Taint

   Taint were a three-piece metal band from Swansea, Wales. The band formed in 1994 while still teenagers, releasing a string of demos, compilation features and split records over eleven years until their first full length album, The Ruin of Nová Roma, was released in 2005. Their sophomore release entitled Secrets and Lies followed in 2007, with an ep, All Bees to the Sea, following in 2009. In September 2010, The band announced via their website that they were disbanding after 16 years. They played their final show in December 2010 in their hometown Swansea. Jimbob still makes music, forming another three-piece band called H A R K, whose debut 7 was released in 2012.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Taint

   tānt, v.t. to tinge, moisten, or impregnate with anything noxious: to infect: to stain.—v.i. to be affected with something corrupting.—n. a stain or tincture: infection or corruption: a spot: a moral blemish.—adj. Taint′less, without taint, pure.—adv. Taint′lessly, without taint.—n. Taint′ure (Shak.), taint, tinge, stain. [O. Fr. taint (Fr. teint), pa.p. of teindre, to dye—L. tingĕre, tinctum, to wet.]

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. taint

   By admiralty law, the taint of contraband extends to all property on board belonging to the owners of detected contraband articles.

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Anagrams for Taint »

1. tinta

2. titan

3. Titan

4. tanti

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Taint in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Taint in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of Taint in a Sentence

1. Sarah Orne Jewett:

   'Taint't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.

2. Fox News:

   And any reference to the Capitol riot will only unfairly prejudice the jury against Fox, inflame passions, prevent a fair trial, and taint any resulting verdict.

3. William Shakespeare:

   I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood.

4. Christopher Becker:

   That... could taint what you remember, people remember things and they see a video and( it) changes what they remember because' oh yeah, I see it this way now,' that was my concern.

5. Meister Eckhart:

   Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Taint
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Taint
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Taint
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Taint
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Taint
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Taint
8. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=Taint