Definition of taint

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Taint (n.) Infection; corruption; deprivation.

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Definiteness :: Definiteness (n.) The state of being definite; determinateness; precision; certainty.
Proof :: Proof (n.) That degree of evidence which convinces the mind of any truth or fact, and produces belief; a test by facts or arguments that induce, or tend to induce, certainty of the judgment; conclusive evidence; demonstration..
Anxiously :: Anxiously (adv.) In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously.
Attaint :: Attaint (v. t.) To affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt..
Hesitate :: Hesitate (v. i.) To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to a determination; as, he hesitated whether to accept the offer or not; men often hesitate in forming a judgment..
Incertitude :: Incertitude (n.) Uncertainty; doubtfulness; doubt.
Satisfactory :: Satisfactory (a.) Giving or producing satisfaction; yielding content; especially, relieving the mind from doubt or uncertainty, and enabling it to rest with confidence; sufficient; as, a satisfactory account or explanation..
Taint :: Taint (n.) A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect..
Dubiety :: Dubiety (n.) Doubtfulness; uncertainty; doubt.
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..
Doubt :: Doubt (v. i.) To waver in opinion or judgment; to be in uncertainty as to belief respecting anything; to hesitate in belief; to be undecided as to the truth of the negative or the affirmative proposition; to b e undetermined.
Attaintment :: Attaintment (n.) Attainder; attainture; conviction.
Poison :: Poison (n.) That which taints or destroys moral purity or health; as, the poison of evil example; the poison of sin..
Season :: Season (v. t.) To imbue; to tinge or taint.
Quitch :: Quitch (n.) Figuratively: A vice; a taint; an evil.
Apprehend :: Apprehend (v. t.) To know or learn with certainty.
Flyblow :: Flyblow (v. t.) To deposit eggs upon, as a flesh fly does on meat; to cause to be maggoty; hence, to taint or contaminate, as if with flyblows..
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.
Uncertainty :: Uncertainty (n.) That which is uncertain; something unknown.
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