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Attaint

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Verb

1. attaint, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, shame

bring shame or dishonor upon

Example Sentences:
'he dishonored his family by committing a serious crime'

2. attaint

condemn by attainder

Example Sentences:
'the man was attainted'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Attaint

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verb (transitive) archaic
1. 
to pass judgment of death or outlawry upon (a person); condemn by bill of attainder
2. 
to dishonour or disgrace
3. 
to accuse or prove to be guilty
4. 
(of sickness) to affect or strike (somebody)
noun
5.  a less common word for attainder
6. 
a dishonour; taint

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Attaint

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verb transitiveWord forms: atˈtainted or atˈtainting
1. 
to punish by attainder
2.  Archaic
to disgrace or dishonor
3.  Archaic
to infect
4.  Archaic
to accuse
5.  Obsolete
to prove guilty
noun
6. 
an attainder
7.  Archaic
a taint; disgrace
8.  Obsolete
a touch or hit in tilting

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Attaint

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tr.v. at·taint·ed, at·taint·ing, at·taints
1. To impart a stigma to; disgrace: "No breath of calumny ever attainted the personal purity of Savonarola" (Henry Hart Milman).
2. To pass a sentence of attainder against.
3. Archaic To infect or corrupt, as with illness or vice.
4. Archaic To accuse.
n.
1. A disgrace; a stigma.
2. Obsolete Attainder.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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