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Grammar : Noun
Spell : uh-teynt
Phonetic Transcription : əˈteɪnt



Definition of attaint

  • noun stain
Example sentences :
  • Hither he came, when attaint was lifted, late in those tottering years.
  • Extract from : « The Spell of Scotland » by Keith Clark
  • It is proposed to attaint men for religion, and also for birth.
  • Extract from : « Charles Sumner; his complete works, volume 5 (of 20) » by Charles Sumner
  • Since all of the victims were dead, the attaint affected only their property.
  • Extract from : « Give Me Liberty » by Thomas J. Wertenbaker
  • Attaint, a writ at common law against a jury for a false verdict, finally abolished in England in 1825.
  • Extract from : « The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 » by Various
  • Now Parliament was called on by the king himself to attaint his ministers and his Queens.
  • Extract from : « History of the English People » by John Richard Green
  • The chivalry of Austria will surely suffer no attaint from one whose distinction it is to be your relative, and a Dalton.
  • Extract from : « The Daltons, Volume II (of II) » by Charles James Lever
  • It resembles the process of reversing a verdict of twelve jurors by a verdict of twenty-four by the old writ of attaint.
  • Extract from : « Iron Making in the Olden Times » by H. G. Nicholls
  • In criminal cases a writ of attaint was issued at suit of the king, and in civil cases at the suit of either party.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 8 » by Various
  • Need I caution thee to watch well that they bring our name into no disgrace or attaint?
  • Extract from : « The Last Of The Barons, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • Others of his following failed not in the "attaint," and horses and troopers floundered in the sand.
  • Extract from : « Under the Rose » by Frederic Stewart Isham

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