attaint
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at·taint
(ə-tānt') 
tr.v., -taint·ed, -taint·ing, -taints.
tr.v., -taint·ed, -taint·ing, -taints.
- To impart stigma to; disgrace: "No breath of calumny ever attainted the personal purity of Savonarola" (Henry Hart Milman).
- To pass a sentence of attainder against.
- Archaic. To infect or corrupt, as with illness or vice.
- Archaic. To accuse.
- Obsolete. Attainder.
- Archaic. A disgrace; a stigma.
[Middle English attainten, from Old French ataint, past participle of ataindre, to affect. See attain.]
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attaint
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attaint
To pass sentence of attainder or to be under such a sentence.
More generally to be stained or degraded by a conviction. In early common law practice referred to a writ used to challenge a jury verdict. 3 Bl.
Comm. *402.
More generally to be stained or degraded by a conviction. In early common law practice referred to a writ used to challenge a jury verdict. 3 Bl.
Comm. *402.
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