attaint
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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
Nor if happily boys declare Thy dominion attaint, refuse, 130 Youth, the nuts to be flinging.
From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus by Robinson Ellis
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
Ah lost am I, if thou, O Saint, Canst thus in thought my heart attaint: No warning charge from thee I need; Ne'er could such crime from me proceed.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
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
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