attaint
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May He have mercy on him who saith: Look thou thy hoariness preserve from aught that may it stain, For whiteness still to take attaint is passing quick and fain.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III by John Payne
Others of his following failed not in the "attaint," and horses and troopers floundered in the sand.
From Under the Rose by Frederic Stewart Isham
If you are Tam O'Shanter, I cannot very well advise you to seek out some worthy young man for an associate and attaint his character and his reputation by clinging to him.
From The Golden Censer The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future by John McGovern
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
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
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