attaint
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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
Beaming in beauty, supreme in virtue, the resplendent aegis of truth shields her from attaint!
From Anna St. Ives by Thomas Holcroft
The chivalry of Austria will surely suffer no attaint from one whose distinction it is to be your relative, and a Dalton.
From The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Charles James Lever
With such janissaries and a penal code comprising everything in its elastic obscurity, there was no need for exceptional laws in order to attaint all Paris.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
The birds methinks tune naught but moan, The winds breathe naught but bitter plaint, The beasts forsake their dens to groan; Birds, winds, and beasts, what doth my loss your powers attaint?
From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles Phillis - Licia by Martha Foote Crow
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