1. distain - Noun
2. distain - Verb
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIf you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married. Katharine Hepburn
It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that distain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life. Jane Austen