Bible Dictionary: Taint

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.

2. (n.) An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner.

3. (v. i.) To thrust ineffectually with a lance.

4. (v. t.) To injure, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.

5. (v. t.) To hit or touch lightly, in tilting.

6. (v. t.) To imbue or impregnate with something extraneous, especially with something odious, noxious, or poisonous; hence, to corrupt; to infect; to poison; as, putrid substance taint the air.

7. (v. t.) Fig.: To stain; to sully; to tarnish.

8. (v. i.) To be infected or corrupted; to be touched with something corrupting.

9. (v. i.) To be affected with incipient putrefaction; as, meat soon taints in warm weather.

10. (n.) Tincture; hue; color; tinge.

11. (n.) Infection; corruption; deprivation.

12. (n.) A blemish on reputation; stain; spot; disgrace.

Greek

3471. moraino -- to be foolish
... to be foolish. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: moraino Phonetic Spelling:
(mo-rah'-ee-no) Short Definition: I make foolish, taint, make useless Definition ...
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3392. miaino -- to stain, defile
... defile. Perhaps a primary verb; to sully or taint, ie Contaminate (ceremonially
or morally) -- defile. (memiammenois) -- 1 Occurrence. ...
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Library

The Instrumentality of the Wicked Employed by God, While He ...
... BOOK FIRST. OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD THE CREATOR CHAPTER 18. THE INSTRUMENTALITY
OF THE WICKED EMPLOYED BY GOD, WHILE HE CONTINUES FREE FROM EVERY TAINT. ...
/.../the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 18 the instrumentality of.htm

The Instance of King Uzziah who was Overcome by the Taint of the ...
... Prolegomena. Chapter XI. The instance of King Uzziah who was overcome by
the taint of the same malady. Of Uzziah, the ancestor of ...
/.../cassian/the works of john cassian /chapter xi the instance of.htm

From' and 'to'
... natural descent which only now for the first time is beginning to receive its due
attention on the part of men of science, by heredity have the taint upon them ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture st john chaps xv to xxi/from and to.htm

Introduction
... to the flesh and spirit, to every one of His commandments; who are filled inseparably
with the grace of God, and are purified from every strange taint, [I wish ...
/.../ignatius/the epistle of ignatius to the romans/introduction.htm

The Jerusalem Sinner Saved;
... the whole law is violated; and, however in some the moral leprosy does not make
such fearful ravages as in others, the slightest taint conveys moral, spiritual ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/the jerusalem sinner saved.htm

From Apostolic Teaching Tertullian Turns to that of Companions of ...
... Then, upon returning on the seventh day, if he should have perceived the taint to
have become diffused in the party-walls, he was to order those stones in ...
/.../tertullian/on modesty/chapter xx from apostolic teaching tertullian.htm

Whether the Remnants of Sin are Removed when a Mortal Sin is ...
... without delivering him wholly; for He wholly healed the man on the Sabbath, since
He delivered his body from all disease, and his soul from all taint." Now the ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether the remnants of sin.htm

The Disciple, -- Sometimes this Question is Asked, "Since God is ...
... salty, because they have life in them; so the man of prayer, though he has to live
in this sin-defiled world, remains free of the sinful taint, because by ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/singh/at the masters feet/section i the disciple 3.htm

Caste viewed as a Doer
... Food thus contaminated would, if eaten, communicate a taint to the souls as well
as bodies of the eaters, a taint which could only be removed by long and ...
/.../wilson-carmichael/things as they are/chapter xi caste viewed as.htm

On the Feast of the Nativity, ii.
... conceived by a Virgin, born of a Virgin, without paternal desire, without injury
to the mother's chastity: because such a birth as knew no taint of human flesh ...
/.../leo/writings of leo the great/sermon xxii on the feast.htm

Thesaurus

Taint (1 Occurrence)
... with something extraneous, especially with something odious, noxious, or poisonous;
hence, to corrupt; to infect; to poison; as, putrid substance taint the air ...
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Gods (310 Occurrences)
... they went from them." Ezekiel declares (16:3), "The Amorite was thy father, and
thy mother was a Hittite," referring doubtless to the idolatrous taint in the ...
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Undefiled (7 Occurrences)
... Blessed are they that are perfect in the way." In the New Testament amiantos, presents
the negative side, "unstained" "unsullied" "without taint." Used to ...
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Leprosy (51 Occurrences)
... This divine power so manifested illustrates his gracious dealings with men in curing
the leprosy of the soul, the fatal taint of sin. Noah Webster's Dictionary. ...
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Gomer (7 Occurrences)
... This need not mean that at the time of marriage she was thus depraved, but she had
the evil taint in her blood, had inherited immoral instincts. ...
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Insincerity (5 Occurrences)
... (See RSV). Titus 2:7 and above all make your own life a pattern of right conduct,
having in your teaching no taint of insincerity, but a serious tone, (WEY). ...
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Tails (4 Occurrences)

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Tainted (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (imp. & pp) of Taint. Multi-Version Concordance
Tainted (1 Occurrence). Luke 16:11 If therefore you have ...
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Tone (9 Occurrences)
... Titus 2:7 and above all make your own life a pattern of right conduct, having in
your teaching no taint of insincerity, but a serious tone, (WEY). ...
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Bible Concordance

Taint (1 Occurrence)

Titus 2:7 and above all make your own life a pattern of right conduct, having in your teaching no taint of insincerity, but a serious tone,
(WEY)

Subtopics

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