attaint
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No attaint lies, nor can a new trial be awarded.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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 The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc by Thomas De Quincey
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
You, reverend sir," said the knight, "have, in the encounter of our wits, made a fair attaint; whereas I may be in some sort said to have broken my staff across.
From The Monastery by Sir Walter Scott
Do they mean to attaint and disable backwards all the kings that have reigned before the Revolution, and consequently to stain the throne of England with the blot of a continual usurpation?
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
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