taint vs virtue

taint

noun
  • A tinge, trace or touch. 

  • A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish. 

  • A marker indicating that a variable is unsafe and should be subjected to additional security checks. 

  • A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food. 

  • A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect. 

  • 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. 

  • The perineum. 

verb
  • To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally. 

  • To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner. 

  • To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting. 

  • To thrust ineffectually with a lance. 

  • To invalidate (a share capital account) by transferring profits into it. 

  • To be affected with incipient putrefaction. 

  • To spoil (food) by contamination. 

  • To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks. 

virtue

noun
  • A creature embodying divine power, specifically one of the orders of heavenly beings, traditionally ranked above angels and below archangels. 

  • Accordance with moral principles; conformity of behaviour or thought with the strictures of morality; good moral conduct. 

  • A particular manifestation of moral excellence in a person; an admirable quality. 

  • Specifically, each of several qualities held to be particularly important, including the four cardinal virtues, the three theological virtues, or the seven virtues opposed to the seven deadly sins. 

  • An inherently advantageous or excellent quality of something or someone; a favourable point, an advantage. 

  • Specifically, moral conduct in sexual behaviour, especially of women; chastity. 

  • The inherent power or efficacy of something (now only in phrases). 

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