Definitions for attaint

attaint at·taint

Spelling: [uh-teynt]
IPA: /əˈteɪnt/

Attaint is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 60 anagrams from letters in attaint (aainttt).

Definitions for attaint

noun

  1. Obsolete. a stain; disgrace; taint.

verb (used with object)

  1. Law. to condemn by a sentence or a bill or act of attainder.
  2. to disgrace.
  3. Archaic. to accuse.
  4. Obsolete. to prove the guilt of.

Origin of attaint

1250-1300; Middle English ataynte, derivative of ataynt convicted Anglo-French, Old French, past participle of ataindre to convict, attain

Examples for attaint

Need I caution thee to watch well that they bring our name into no disgrace or attaint?

Others of his following failed not in the "attaint," and horses and troopers floundered in the sand.

Now Parliament was called on by the king himself to attaint his ministers and his Queens.

attaint, a writ at common law against a jury for a false verdict, finally abolished in England in 1825.

It is proposed to attaint men for religion, and also for birth.

Since all of the victims were dead, the attaint affected only their property.

Hither he came, when attaint was lifted, late in those tottering years.

It resembles the process of reversing a verdict of twelve jurors by a verdict of twenty-four by the old writ of attaint.

In criminal cases a writ of attaint was issued at suit of the king, and in civil cases at the suit of either party.

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

Word Value for attaint
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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