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STAINLESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Steel containing chromium that makes it resistant to corrosion
Synonyms:
chromium steel; stainless; stainless steel
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("stainless" is a kind of...):
alloy steel (steel who characteristics are determined by the addition of other elements in addition to carbon)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of reputation) free from blemishes
Example:
an untarnished reputation
Synonyms:
stainless; unstained; unsullied; untainted; untarnished
Classified under:
Similar:
unblemished; unmarred; unmutilated (free from physical or moral spots or stains)
Context examples:
It seems to me, that if you tried hard, you would in time find it possible to become what you yourself would approve; and that if from this day you began with resolution to correct your thoughts and actions, you would in a few years have laid up a new and stainless store of recollections, to which you might revert with pleasure.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Such had he imagined the angels, and such he had tried to paint them in the Beaulieu missals; but here there was something human, were it only in the battered hawk and discolored dress, which sent a tingle and thrill through his nerves such as no dream of radiant and stainless spirit had ever yet been able to conjure up.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I started, or rather (for like other defaulters, I like to lay half the blame on ill fortune and adverse circumstances) was thrust on to a wrong tack at the age of one-and-twenty, and have never recovered the right course since: but I might have been very different; I might have been as good as you—wiser—almost as stainless.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The breeze was from the west: it came over the hills, sweet with scents of heath and rush; the sky was of stainless blue; the stream descending the ravine, swelled with past spring rains, poured along plentiful and clear, catching golden gleams from the sun, and sapphire tints from the firmament.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
