Definition of taint

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Taint (v. t.) 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..

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Taint :: Taint (n.) Infection; corruption; deprivation.
Certitude :: Certitude (n.) Freedom from doubt; assurance; certainty.
Attaint :: Attaint (v.) An infecting influence.
Inexactitude :: Inexactitude (n.) Inexactness; uncertainty; as, geographical inexactitude..
Unsurety :: Unsurety (n.) Want of surety; uncertainty; insecurity; doubt.
Settle :: Settle (n.) To determine, as something which is exposed to doubt or question; to free from unscertainty or wavering; to make sure, firm, or constant; to establish; to compose; to quiet; as, to settle the mind when agitated; to settle questions of law; to settle the succession to a throne; to settle an allowance..
Pollute :: Pollute (v. t.) To make foul, impure, or unclean; to defile; to taint; to soil; to desecrate; -- used of physical or moral defilement..
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..
Pathognomonic :: Pathognomonic (a.) Specially or decisively characteristic of a disease; indicating with certainty a disease; as, a pathognomonic symptom..
Innocent :: Innocent (a.) Morally free from guilt; guiltless; not tainted with sin; pure; upright.
Tainture :: Tainture (n.) Taint; tinge; difilement; stain; spot.
Attaint :: Attaint (v. t.) To stain; to obscure; to sully; to disgrace; to cloud with infamy.
Ascertain :: Ascertain (v. t.) To find out or learn for a certainty, by trial, examination, or experiment; to get to know; as, to ascertain the weight of a commodity, or the purity of a metal..
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..
Certainty :: Certainty (n.) Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity.
Assize :: Assize (n.) Anything fixed or reduced to a certainty in point of time, number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc.; as, rent of assize..
Disputable :: Disputable (v. i.) Capable of being disputed; liable to be called in question, controverted, or contested; or doubtful certainty or propriety; controvertible; as, disputable opinions, propositions, points, or questions..
Uncertainty :: Uncertainty (n.) That which is uncertain; something unknown.
Attaint :: Attaint (v.) A blow or wound on the leg of a horse, made by overreaching..
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