Attaints is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.
You can make 135 anagrams from letters in attaints (aainsttt).
1250-1300; Middle English ataynte, derivative of ataynt convicted Anglo-French, Old French, past participle of ataindre to convict, attain
It is proposed to attaint men for religion, and also for birth.
The chivalry of Austria will surely suffer no attaint from one whose distinction it is to be your relative, and a Dalton.
Need I caution thee to watch well that they bring our name into no disgrace or attaint?
attaint, a writ at common law against a jury for a false verdict, finally abolished in England in 1825.
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.
Now Parliament was called on by the king himself to attaint his ministers and his Queens.
Hither he came, when attaint was lifted, late in those tottering years.
Since all of the victims were dead, the attaint affected only their property.
Others of his following failed not in the "attaint," and horses and troopers floundered in the sand.