All 6 Uses of
taint
in
Twelfth Night
- This is a practice As full of labour as a wise man's art: For folly, that he wisely shows, is fit; But wise men, folly-fallen, quite taint their wit.†
Scene 3.1
- No, madam, he does nothing but smile: your ladyship were best to have some guard about you if he come; For, sure, the man is tainted in his wits.†
Scene 3.4 *
- Nay, pursue him now; lest the device take air and taint.†
Scene 3.4
- I know of none, Nor know I you by voice or any feature: I hate ingratitude more in a man Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, Or any taint of vice whose strong corruption Inhabits our frail blood.†
Scene 3.4
- After him I love More than I love these eyes, more than my life, More, by all mores, than e'er I shall love wife; If I do feign, you witnesses above Punish my life for tainting of my love!†
Scene 5.1
- Good madam, hear me speak; And let no quarrel, nor no brawl to come, Taint the condition of this present hour, Which I have wonder'd at.†
Scene 5.1
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