- present tense form of attain (3rd person singular).
attains
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Most attaints were reversed as a term of peace made between factions.
From Our Legal Heritage by Reilly, S. A.
Without making these corrections, we would have the conditional attaints, under clauses 1, 2, and 3, amount in "The List" to 1,311, in Harris to 1,282, and in King to 1,873.
From Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry by Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William)
With similar want of faith, both these writers make out a fifth list of attaints of the persons explicitly not attainted, but whose rents are forfeited by sec.
From Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry by Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William)
Thou shalt be bow'd to as we bow to saints In window'd shrines; and, far from all attaints Of ribald passion, thou, as seemeth good, Wilt smile serenely in thy virginhood.
From A Lover's Litanies by Mackay, Eric
The second article attaints persons who had absented themselves "since or shortly before" the 5th November, 1688, unless they return before the 1st of September, that is, in about ten weeks.
From Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry by Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William)
