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 Pierre Claude Fran?ois Daunou
Beaming in beauty, supreme in virtue, the resplendent aegis of truth shields her from attaint!
From Anna St. Ives by Thomas Holcroft
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 Joost van den Vondel
The blood of one convicted of high treason is "attaint," and his deprivations extend to his descendants, unless Parliament remove the attainder.
From The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc by Thomas De Quincey
What simple thief brags of his own attaint?
From The Comedy of Errors The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by William George Clark
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