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Attaint   Listen
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



... voice and tearful eye Thus Bharat sadly made reply: "Ah lost am I, if thou, O Saint, Canst thus in thought my heart attaint: No warning charge from thee I need; Ne'er could such crime from me proceed. The words my guilty mother spake When fondly jealous for my sake— Think not that I, to triumph moved, Those words approve or e'er approved. O Hermit, ...
— The Ramayana • VALMIKI

... most other nations, justified the Irish parliament in treating them as such; and should make all who sympathise with these rebels pause ere they condemn every other party on whom law or defeat have fixed that name. Yet even this attaint is but conditional; the parties had over seven weeks to surrender and take their trial, and the king could, at any time, for over four months after, grant them a pardon both as to persons and property—a pardon which, whether we consider his necessities and policy, his habitual ...
— Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry • Thomas Davis

... of the race of Diarmid, became master of the lands and lordships of Argyll,—how six generations later—each of them notable in their day—the valiant Sir Colin created for his posterity a title prouder than any within a sovereign's power to bestow, which no forfeiture could attaint, no act of parliament recall; for though he cease to be Duke or Earl, the head of the Clan Campbell will still remain Mac Calan More,—and how at last the same Sir Colin fell at the String of Cowal, beneath the sword of that fierce lord, whose granddaughter was destined ...
— Letters From High Latitudes • The Marquess of Dufferin (Lord Dufferin)

... were soon to have their effect on this secluded community. Regiments, red and blue, trumpets, drums, banners, artillery trains, and all the din of war transformed its peaceful streets, and brought some attaint to domestic morals hitherto commendable; for during the next five years Albany was to be the principal base of ...
— Montcalm and Wolfe • Francis Parkman

... force of your report, My noble Lord of Suffolk, or for that My tender youth was never yet attaint With any passion of inflaming love, I cannot tell; but this I am assured, I feel such sharp dissension in my breast, Such fierce alarums both of hope and fear, As I am sick with working of my thoughts. Take, therefore, shipping; post, my lord, to France; Agree to any covenants, ...
— King Henry VI, First Part • William Shakespeare [Aldus edition]



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



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