attaint
Example Sentences
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You, reverend sir," said the knight, "have, in the encounter of our wits, made a fair attaint; whereas I may be in some sort said to have broken my staff across.
From The Monastery by Sir Walter Scott
Do they mean to attaint and disable backwards all the kings that have reigned before the Revolution, and consequently to stain the throne of England with the blot of a continual usurpation?
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
Others of his following failed not in the "attaint," and horses and troopers floundered in the sand.
From Under the Rose by Frederic Stewart Isham
Such secrets, gentle reader, might, if revealed, attaint the lady's character.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 by Various
Where you have little to suspect; And treach’rous persons will attaint Men, against whom there’s no complaint.
From The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Henry T. (Henry Thomas) Riley
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