Definition of taint

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Taint (n.) 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..

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Corrupter :: Corrupter (n.) One who corrupts; one who vitiates or taints; as, a corrupter of morals..
Envenom :: Envenom (v. t.) To taint or impregnate with venom, or any substance noxious to life; to poison; to render dangerous or deadly by poison, as food, drink, a weapon; as, envenomed meat, wine, or arrow; also, to poison (a person) by impregnating with venom..
Taint :: Taint (n.) A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect..
Precarious :: Precarious (a.) Held by a doubtful tenure; depending on unknown causes or events; exposed to constant risk; not to be depended on for certainty or stability; uncertain; as, a precarious state of health; precarious fortunes..
Attainting :: Attainting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Attain.
Indefinitely :: Indefinitely (adv.) In an indefinite manner or degree; without any settled limitation; vaguely; not with certainty or exactness; as, to use a word indefinitely..
Poison :: Poison (n.) To taint; to corrupt; to vitiate; as, vice poisons happiness; slander poisoned his mind..
Attaint :: Attaint (v. t.) To affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt..
Infection :: Infection (n.) That which taints or corrupts morally; as, the infection of vicious principles..
Anxiously :: Anxiously (adv.) In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously.
Infect :: Infect (v. t.) To communicate to or affect with, as qualities or emotions, esp. bad qualities; to corrupt; to contaminate; to taint by the communication of anything noxious or pernicious..
Assuredness :: Assuredness (n.) The state of being assured; certainty; full confidence.
Taint :: Taint (v. i.) To thrust ineffectually with a lance.
Flutist :: Flutist (n.) To be in agitation; to move irregularly; to flucttuate; to be uncertainty.
Rely :: Rely (v. i.) To rest with confidence, as when fully satisfied of the veracity, integrity, or ability of persons, or of the certainty of facts or of evidence; to have confidence; to trust; to depend; -- with on, formerly also with in..
Dubiety :: Dubiety (n.) Doubtfulness; uncertainty; doubt.
Believe :: Believe (v. i.) To have a firm persuasion, esp. of the truths of religion; to have a persuasion approaching to certainty; to exercise belief or faith..
Attainted :: Attainted (imp. & p. p.) of Attain.
Self-evident :: Self-evident (a.) Evident without proof or reasoning; producing certainty or conviction upon a bare presentation to the mind; as, a self-evident proposition or truth..
Skepticism :: Skepticism (n.) An undecided, inquiring state of mind; doubt; uncertainty..
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