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tainture

noun

Etymology

Perhaps taint + -ure; perhaps from Middle French tainture (“dye; dyeing; tincture”). Doublet of teinture, tinctura, and tincture.

  1. borrowed from tainture — “dye; dyeing; tincture”

Definitions

  1. Dirtiness

    Dirtiness; uncleanliness; contamination, tainting.

    • Gloster, ſee here the Taincture of thy Neſt, And looke thy ſelfe be faultleſſe, thou wert beſt.
    • Dem[etrius]. Now Princes, your demands? Sel[eucus]. Peace, if it may bee Without the too much tainture of our honour: […]
    • But, woe is me, other creatures are fraile too, none but man is sinfull; our soule is not more excellent, than this tainture of it, is odious, and deadly […]

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA