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attaint

/uh-teynt/US // əˈteɪnt //UK // (əˈteɪnt) //

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 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. 1
    • : Obsolete. a stain; disgrace; taint.

Synonyms & Antonyms

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.