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verb
Attaint  v. t.  (past & past part. attainted; pres. part. attainting)  
1.
To attain; to get act; to hit. (Obs.)
2.
(Old Law) To find guilty; to convict; said esp. of a jury on trial for giving a false verdict. (Obs.) "Upon sufficient proof attainted of some open act by men of his own condition."
3.
(Law) To subject (a person) to the legal condition formerly resulting from a sentence of death or outlawry, pronounced in respect of treason or felony; to affect by attainder. "No person shall be attainted of high treason where corruption of blood is incurred, but by the oath of two witnesses."
4.
To accuse; to charge with a crime or a dishonorable act. (Archaic)
5.
To affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt. "My tender youth was never yet attaint With any passion of inflaming love."
6.
To stain; to obscure; to sully; to disgrace; to cloud with infamy. "Lest she with blame her honor should attaint."






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"Attaint" Quotes from Famous Books



... smile, And calls them brothers, friends, and countrymen. Upon his royal face there is no note How dread an army hath enrounded him; Nor doth he dedicate one jot of colour Unto the weary and all-watched night, But freshly looks and over-bears attaint With cheerful semblance and sweet majesty, That every wretch, pining and pale before, Beholding him, plucks comfort from his looks. A largess universal like the sun His liberal eye doth give to every one, Thawing cold fear, that mean and gentle all, Behold, as may ...
— Lyra Heroica - A Book of Verse for Boys • Various

... should be in Irish or in British hands. If he remained at Dublin, it would be scarcely possible for him to withhold his assent from any bill presented to him by the Parliament which he had summoned to meet there. He would be forced to plunder, perhaps to attaint, innocent Protestant gentlemen and clergymen by hundreds; and he would thus do irreparable mischief to his cause on the other side of Saint George's Channel. If he repaired to Ulster, he would be within a few hours' sail of Great Britain. As soon as Londonderry had fallen, and it was ...
— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 3 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay



Words linked to "Attaint" :   condemn, dishonor, shame, dishonour, foul, defile, maculate, honor



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