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taintless

taintless adjective: free from blemish; totally clean; spotless.

Adjective

taintless (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Free from blemish; totally clean; spotless.
    • And then, ſo nice, and ſo genteel; / Such Cleanlineſs from Head to Heel: / No Humours groſs, or frowzy Steams, / No noiſom Whiffs, or ſweaty Streams, / Before, behind, above, below, / Could from her taintleſs Body flow.1731, [Jonathan Swift], “Strephon and Chloe”, in A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed. […], Dublin; London: […] [William Bowyer] for J. Roberts […], published 1734, →OCLC, page 8

Origin of taintless

From taint + -less.

Words formed from taintless

Questions about taintless

What does taintless mean?
Taintless means free from blemish; totally clean; spotless.
What part of speech is taintless?
Taintless is an adjective.

Words near taintless in the dictionary

  1. Tainter gates
  2. tainters
  3. taintest
  4. tainteth
  5. tainting
  6. taintless
  7. taintlessly
  8. taintlessness
  9. taintment
  10. taintments
  11. taintor

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