What does taint mean?

Definitions for taint
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Princeton's WordNet

  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

Wiktionary

  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 Dictionary

  1. Taintnoun

    Etymology: teinte, Fr. from the verb.

    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.

    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.

    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.

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

    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.

    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.

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

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

  3. To Taintverb

    To be infected; to be touched.

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

ChatGPT

  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.

Webster Dictionary

  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

Wikidata

  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 Dictionary

  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 Terms

  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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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. Ilhan Omar:

    We are a nation of tremendous wealth. Hunger in this country is the result of policies that keep wages low and funnel wealth to the top. It is the result of a political system that says it is OK to spend money on tax breaks for millionaires and the same companies who taint our economy, but we can't afford to fund meals for our kids in the streets.

  2. James Clapper:

    No one can say( the Russians) didn't interfere, and, in fact, I think taint the election.

  3. Hatice Cengiz:

    I am deeply grateful for the solidarity of people all over the world. I am, however, disappointed in the actions of the leadership in many countries, particularly in the Hatice Cengiz, president Trump should help reveal the truth and ensure justice be served. President Trump should not pave the way for a cover-up of my fiancé's murder. Let President Trump not let money taint our conscience and compromise our values.

  4. 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.

  5. Wang Wenbin:

    Its nothing but fake news aimed to smear China, which only indicates how crazy some people have gone to taint Chinas image and damage China-U.S. relations, china pursues an independent foreign policy of peace. We have never started a war with others, not to mention paying non-state actors to attack other countries.

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