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.
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.
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).