Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tainture

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: tain-ture
IPA

8

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Dirtiness; uncleanliness; contamination, tainting.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"Gloster, ſee here the Taincture of thy Neſt, And looke thy ſelfe be faultleſſe, thou wert beſt."
"Dem[etrius]. Now Princes, your demands? Sel[eucus]. Peace, if it may bee Without the too much tainture of our honour: […]"
"But, woe is me, other creatures are fraile too, none but man is sinfull; our soule is not more excellent, than this tainture of it, is odious, and deadly […]"

Etymology

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

Origin

Source language: Middle French

Word Breakdown

Root: tainture
Suffix: taint

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

taintures (plural)

Questions

What does tainture mean?: Dirtiness; uncleanliness; contamination, tainting.
Where does tainture come from?: It is traced to Middle French.

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