All 7 Uses of
taint
in
Bleak House
- Other men's fathers may have died of the rheumatism or may have taken base contagion from the tainted blood of the sick vulgar, but the Dedlock family have communicated something exclusive even to the levelling process of dying by dying of their own family gout.†
Chpt 16-18
- It's a tainting sort of weather."†
Chpt 31-33
- "It IS a tainting sort of weather," says Mr. Snagsby, "and I find it sinking to the spirits."†
Chpt 31-33
- But it taints everybody.†
Chpt 37-39 *
- You know it taints everybody.†
Chpt 37-39
- Verily, what with tainting, plundering, and spoiling, Tom has his revenge.†
Chpt 46-48
- If in my knowledge of THE secret I do what I can to spare an innocent girl (especially, remembering your own reference to her when you told my story to the assembled guests at Chesney Wold) from the taint of my impending shame, I act upon a resolution I have taken.†
Chpt 46-48
Definition:
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(taint) to spoil something so it is not desirable -- as when bacteria contaminates a food; or as when a rumor makes people distrust a person