tainture

noun

1. Dirtiness; uncleanliness; contamination, tainting.

   obsolete

   And looke thy ſelfe be faultleſſe, thou wert beſt.

   Gloster, ſee here the Taincture of thy Neſt,

Where it comes from

Perhaps taint + -ure; perhaps from Middle French tainture (“dye; dyeing; tincture”). Doublet of teinture, tinctura, and tincture.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry tainture (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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