attaint
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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
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
V. condemn, convict, cast, bring home to, find guilty, damn, doom, sign the death warrant, sentence, pass sentence on, attaint, confiscate, proscribe, sequestrate; nonsuit†. disapprove &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
Where you have little to suspect; And treach’rous persons will attaint Men, against whom there’s no complaint.
From The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Henry T. (Henry Thomas) Riley
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
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