attaint
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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
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 John West
Bossuet also observes, that at the moment in which Robert was struck with these terrible anathemas, nobody thought or asserted that this excommunication could carry the least attaint to the sovereign authority of this monarch.
From The Power Of The Popes by Pierre Claude Fran?ois Daunou
Beaming in beauty, supreme in virtue, the resplendent aegis of truth shields her from attaint!
From Anna St. Ives by Thomas Holcroft
The Versaillese want more than the body; they must attaint the rebellious mind, surround it with an atmosphere of stench and vice, in order to make it fail and founder.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
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