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Distain

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Dis`tain´
v. t.1.To tinge with a different color from the natural or proper one; to stain; to discolor; to sully; to tarnish; to defile; - used chiefly in poetry.
[imp. & p. p. Distained ; p. pr. & vb. n. Distaining.]
[She] hath . . . distained her honorable blood.
- Spenser.
The worthiness of praise distains his worth.
- Shak.


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The result was rioting and grumbling and a general distain for authority that Bennett nicely connects to sailors' historic recalcitrance.
Union Jacks: Yankee Sailors in the Civil War by Buchanan, Thomas C. / Journal of Social History
Name these anti-veteran members of Congress and print their statements, plans to obstruct funding and their distain for us in your magazine.
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There are Hip Hop artists who have been perceived as very conscious in their expressions of distain for socio-political examples of bias treatment (i.
Sankofa: reclaiming community by Webb-Johnson, Gwen / Black History Bulletin
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