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tinct

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7
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9
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/tɪŋkt/

Definition of tinct

4 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (archaic)A tint or colour.
    “blue of heaven's own tinct”
    “[She] fashion'd for it / A case of silk, and braided thereupon / All the devices blazon'd on the shield / In their own tinct, […]”
    “The slightest tinct of uncertainty in the old man’s thought, and he, Kirkwood, became a plotter like the others, meeting mine with countermine.”
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noun

  1. (archaic)A tint or colour.
    “blue of heaven's own tinct”
    “[She] fashion'd for it / A case of silk, and braided thereupon / All the devices blazon'd on the shield / In their own tinct, […]”
    “The slightest tinct of uncertainty in the old man’s thought, and he, Kirkwood, became a plotter like the others, meeting mine with countermine.”
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of tincture.

verb

  1. to tint, tinge or colour

adj

  1. tinged or lightly coloured
    “The blew in black, the greene in gray is tinct, […]”

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Etymology

From Middle English tynct (noun) and tincten, tyncten, tynkten (verb), borrowed from Latin tīnctus, past participle of tingō (“to tinge”). Doublet of tint.

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