untaste meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

untaste

verb

/ʌnˈteɪst/

Etymology From un- + taste.

To deprive of taste.

[…]Vntaſte them of this violent diſguſt;1609, Samuel Daniel, “The Eightth Booke”, in The Civile Wares betweene the Howses of Lancaster and Yorke […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes for] Simon Watersonne, →OCLC, stanza 83, page 224:

To lose, cancel out, or forget the taste of; reverse the tasting of

“Ugh! Ugh and double-ugh!” Elsa was trying to wipe dough off her face and away from her mouth. “I am never going to untaste that. Never!2015, Zanzibar 7 Schwarznegger, Veneri Verbum - Page 73:
He spat in the dirt, trying to untaste the idea.2015, Holly Black, Doll Bones - Page 40:

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Could we untaste Eden's tainted fruit?2015, Jen Rose Yokel, Ruins & Kingdoms - Page 45:

noun

Etymology From un- (“absence of”) + taste.

Absence or lack of taste (all senses); tastelessness

Those years comprise (among other drolleries) a complete reversal of public untaste; "nonobjective art", once anathematized, being now de rigeur.1964, Charles Norman, E. E. Cummings: the magic-maker - Page 267:
Moreover, from untaste to unknowing, from unknowing to non-possession, from non-possession to non-being, there is an obvious progress, but in negativity.1988, George Henry Tavard, Poetry and contemplation in St. John of the Cross - Page 66:

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[...] only that mind could appreciate the true meaning of hell, a place of virtual nonexistence, of absolute cold, of emptiness beyond all sensations, an abstract vacuum of untouch, untaste, unhope, unlove. An urplace that negated every word, [...]2001, Thomas Fleming, Hours of Gladness: