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at·taint    Audio Help   (ə-tānt')  Pronunciation Key 
tr.v.   at·taint·ed, at·taint·ing, at·taints
  1. To impart stigma to; disgrace: "No breath of calumny ever attainted the personal purity of Savonarola" (Henry Hart Milman).
  2. To pass a sentence of attainder against.
  3. Archaic To infect or corrupt, as with illness or vice.
  4. Archaic To accuse.

n.  
  1. Obsolete Attainder.
  2. Archaic A disgrace; a stigma.


[Middle English attainten, from Old French ataint, past participle of ataindre, to affect; see attain.]

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