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taint sb. (not pre-Eliz. in these senses)
1. corruption, decay H8 V. iii. 28, Lr. I. i. 224.
2. stain, blemish Ham. II. i. 32; disgrace Troil. I. iii. 374.
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.

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