attaint
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With such janissaries and a penal code comprising everything in its elastic obscurity, there was no need for exceptional laws in order to attaint all Paris.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
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
The tender of a ship or of a locomotive is the attender, and taint is aphetic for attaint, Fr. atteinte, touch— "I will not poison thee with my attaint."
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
Ah lost am I, if thou, O Saint, Canst thus in thought my heart attaint: No warning charge from thee I need; Ne'er could such crime from me proceed.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
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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