attaint
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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
It seemed to purport, contrary to the Constitution, to attaint the property of rebels after their death, and Lincoln was unwilling that the Constitution should be stretched in the direction of revengeful harshness.
From Abraham Lincoln by Godfrey Rathbone Benson, Baron Charnwood
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
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
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
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