All 3 Uses of
taint
in
The Sunlight Dialogues
- Our kindness has been tainted with masochism since the world began, and it is not to our best interest to forget it.†
Chpt 6 *tainted = spoiled or contaminated
- Nonetheless, he was tainted by the event.†
Chpt 8
- He thought clearly now, with absolute indifference to himself, beyond the pleasure or pain of vengeance, beyond any taint of satisfaction or reward or even common dignity, beyond even shame at his having failed to act directly, impersonally before.†
Chpt 23taint = to spoil something so it is not desirable
Definitions:
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(1)
(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
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, taint is used in a non-negative way to refer to a trace of something.