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 Payne, John

They were wholesomely housed in healthful places, and they were clad fitly for their labor and fitly for their leisure; the caprices of vanity were not suffered to attaint the beauty of the national dress.

From A Traveler from Altruria: Romance by Howells, William Dean

The defendant, when sued in England on a bill, pleaded the attaint of the plaintiff, who had received the pardon of Macquarie.

From The History of Tasmania , Volume II by West, John

Again, on the 30th October, a bill was ordered to attaint all such persons as were in rebellion against their Majesties.

From Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry by Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William)

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 De Quincey, Thomas