different between mintless vs tintless

English

mint +? -less

mintless (not comparable)

tint +? -less

tintless (comparative more tintless, superlative most tintless)

Having no tint; colourless.
- 1849, Richard Henry Bonnycastle, Canada and the Canadians, Henry Colburn (1849), Chapter IX:
  One of the most curious things on the shallow parts of Huron is to sail or row over the submarine or sublacune mountains, and to feel giddy from fancy, for it is like being in a balloon, so pure and tintless is the water.
- 1880, Percy Greg, Across the Zodiac: The Story of a Wrecked Record, Truber & Co (1880), page 195:
  It can be tinted to the taste of the purchaser; but, as a rule, a tintless crystal is preferred.

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