attaint
/uh-teynt/US // əˈteɪnt //UK // (əˈteɪnt) //
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v.有主动词 verb
- 1
- : Law. to condemn by a sentence or a bill or act of attainder.
- : to disgrace.
- : Archaic. to accuse.
- : Obsolete. to prove the guilt of.
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : Obsolete. a stain; disgrace; taint.
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Examples
Now Parliament was called on by the king himself to attaint his ministers and his Queens.
Others of his following failed not in the "attaint," and horses and troopers floundered in the sand.
It is proposed to attaint men for religion, and also for birth.
Hereditaryship is, in this sense, as much an attaint upon principle, as an outrage upon society.
It is an attaint upon character; a sort of privateering on family property.
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