Both Uses of
taint
in
Snow Falling on Cedars
- "I could say," her mother went on, "that living among the hakujin has tainted you, made your soul impure, Hatsue."
Chpt 14 *tainted = contaminated or spoiled
- It was, she knew, the simplest kind of love, the purest form, untainted by Mind, which twisted everything, as Mrs. Shigemura, ironically, had preached.†
Chpt 14
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