attaint
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Unneth thy flocks may feed to see thee faint, Thou lost, they lean, and both with woe attaint.
From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles Phillis - Licia by Martha Foote Crow
Thou canst attaint even those among the watch Of most integrity, and teach even those To waver who had thought to waver never.
From Vondel's Lucifer by Joost van den Vondel
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
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 Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas De Quincey
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 John Payne
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