All 7 Uses of
taint
in
The Island of Dr. Moreau
- Each of these creatures, despite its human form, its rag of clothing, and the rough humanity of its bodily form, had woven into it—into its movements, into the expression of its countenance, into its whole presence—some now irresistible suggestion of a hog, a swinish taint, the unmistakable mark of the beast.†
Chpt 9
- They were men, men like yourselves, whom you have infected with some bestial taint,—men whom you have enslaved, and whom you still fear.†
Chpt 13
- There's no taint of pain, real pain, in the sensations of the optic nerve.†
Chpt 14
- It was a complex trophy of Moreau's horrible skill,—a bear, tainted with dog and ox, and one of the most elaborately made of all his creatures.†
Chpt 15 *
- His long separation from humanity, his secret vice of drunkenness, his evident sympathy with the Beast People, tainted him to me.†
Chpt 17
- One perhaps was ursine chiefly, another feline chiefly, another bovine chiefly; but each was tainted with other creatures,—a kind of generalised animalism appearing through the specific dispositions.†
Chpt 21
- It was not afraid and not ashamed; the last vestige of the human taint had vanished.†
Chpt 21
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