attaint

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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 Burke, Edmund

The chivalry of Austria will surely suffer no attaint from one whose distinction it is to be your relative, and a Dalton.

From The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James

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

For in an attaint under Henry the Sixt, one of the Jury challenged himselfe because his ancestors had been Baronets and Seigneurs des Parlements.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 90, July 19, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. by Various

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