Definitions
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- verb Present participle of
attaint .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In the first, Cardinal Wolsey contrives the attainting of his enemy, the Duke of Buckingham.
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In 1585 he sat as a peer in Perrot's Parliament, assenting to the attainting of the Earl of
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President, by two unconstitutional bills, one attainting the whole people of the South, and the other aimed at the authority of the
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An act for attainting Lord Edward Fitzgerald, Mr. Harvey, and Mr. Grogan, against which Curran, taking "his instructions from the grave," pleaded at the bar of the
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An act for attainting Lord Edward Fitzgerald, Mr. Harvey, and Mr. Grogan, against which Curran, taking "his instructions from the grave," pleaded at the bar of the
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Gospel leaned to the side of mercy, and gave the children the benefit of the believing parent's faith, instead of attainting them through the heathen parent.
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The House of Commons did not dare to trust the trial of the king to the Peers, according to the provisions of the English Constitution, and so they passed an ordinance for attainting him of high treason, and for appointing _commissioners_, themselves, to try him.
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This was considered as the consequence of the _attainting_ of the blood, which rendered it corrupt, and incapable of transmitting an inheritance.
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He reminded the Lords Triers, in very significant language, that Delamere had, in Parliament, objected to the bill for attainting Monmouth, a fact which was not, and could not be, in evidence.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2
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The very next entry is -- "A Bill for the attainting certain persons of high treason, was read the first time."
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