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taintless, a. Chiefly poet.|ˈteɪntlɪs|
[f. taint n. + -less.]
Free from taint; without stain or blemish; immaculate, clean, pure, innocent.
1590Marlowe 2nd Pt. Tamburl. iv. i, To flesh our taintless swords. 1602Marston Antonio's Rev. iv. iii, Heaven permits not taintlesse bloode be spilt. 1776Mickle tr. Camoens' Luisad 333 His loyalty as taintless snow. 1863Kingsley Water-Babies i. 44 To the golden sands, and the leaping bar, And the taintless tide that awaits me afar. 1893in Barrows Parl. Relig. I. 725 A pure, taintless, lofty, elevating..faith.
Hence ˈtaintlessly adv., without taint; ˈtaintlessness, the quality of being taintless.
1811Shelley Let. 26 Nov. (1964) I. 144 The first words you spoke to me..are eternal earnests of your taintlessness and sincerity. 1846Worcester, Taintlessly. 1963English Studies XLIV. 22 Taintlessness and incorruptibility seem to depend not so much on the predominance of blood stains as on out⁓look. |