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attaint
[ uh-teynt ]
verb (used with object)
- Law. to condemn by a sentence or a bill or act of attainder.
- to disgrace.
- Archaic. to accuse.
- Obsolete. to prove the guilt of.
noun
- Obsolete. a stain; disgrace; taint.
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- unat·tainted adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of attaint1
C14: from Old French ateint convicted, from ateindre to attain
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Example Sentences
Now Parliament was called on by the king himself to attaint his ministers and his Queens.
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Others of his following failed not in the "attaint," and horses and troopers floundered in the sand.
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It is proposed to attaint men for religion, and also for birth.
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Hereditaryship is, in this sense, as much an attaint upon principle, as an outrage upon society.
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It is an attaint upon character; a sort of privateering on family property.
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