attaint
Example Sentences
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No attaint lies, nor can a new trial be awarded.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Even to have kicked an outsider might have been held to attaint the foot concerned in that operation; so that, perhaps, it would have required an act of parliament to restore its purity of blood.
From Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas De Quincey
Now Parliament was called on by the king himself to attaint his ministers and his Queens.
From History of the English People, Volume IV by John Richard Green
Rosader's third Sonnet Of virtuous love myself may boast alone, Since no suspect my service may attaint: For perfect fair she is the only one, Whom I esteem for my belovèd saint.
From Rosalynde or, Euphues' Golden Legacy by Edward Chauncey Baldwin
It seemed to purport, contrary to the Constitution, to attaint the property of rebels after their death, and Lincoln was unwilling that the Constitution should be stretched in the direction of revengeful harshness.
From Abraham Lincoln by Godfrey Rathbone Benson, Baron Charnwood
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