attaint

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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

The birds methinks tune naught but moan, The winds breathe naught but bitter plaint, The beasts forsake their dens to groan; Birds, winds, and beasts, what doth my loss your powers attaint?

From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles Phillis - Licia by Crow, Martha Foote

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 Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

Such secrets, gentle reader, might, if revealed, attaint the lady's character.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 by Various

Where you have little to suspect; And treach’rous persons will attaint Men, against whom there’s no complaint.

From The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas)