attaint

• Have you been paying any attaint ion to where the problem is? —  Wal-Mart Watch
• A bill of attainder is one which purports to attaint (criminally condemn) a person without benefit of criminal trial. —  Capitol Hill Blue - The oldest political news site on the Internet
• Others of his following failed not in the "attaint," and horses and troopers floundered in the sand. —  Under the Rose
• In these circumstances, it seems to be of incalculable importance, that no attaint should be given to the delicacy and purity of their expanding minds; that their increasing knowledge should be of good chiefly, and not of evil; that they should not consider modesty as one of the prejudices from which they are now to be emancipated; nor found any part of their new influence upon the licentiousness of which Mr. Moore invites them to be partakers. —  Famous Reviews
• The blood of one convicted of high treason is "attaint," and his deprivations extend to his descendants, unless Parliament remove the attainder 4 14 PARIAHS: The fate of social outcasts seems to have taken early and strong hold upon De Quincey's mind; one of the Suspiria was to have enlarged upon this theme. —  The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc

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