attaint

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Bossuet also observes, that at the moment in which Robert was struck with these terrible anathemas, nobody thought or asserted that this excommunication could carry the least attaint to the sovereign authority of this monarch.

From The Power Of The Popes by Daunou, Pierre Claude Fran?ois

The tender of a ship or of a locomotive is the attender, and taint is aphetic for attaint, Fr. atteinte, touch— "I will not poison thee with my attaint."

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest

Thou canst attaint even those among the watch Of most integrity, and teach even those To waver who had thought to waver never.

From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den

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 De Quincey, Thomas

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