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condemn by attainder
the man was attainted -
bring shame or dishonor upon
he dishonored his family by committing a serious crime
How To Use attaint In A Sentence
- Fortescue fought at the battle of Towton and was subsequently attainted by the victorious Edward IV.
- the man was attainted
- Because complete oil path closes, can prevent dust to invade attaint bearing again.
- Cecil wanted her attainted in Parliament and executed for her alleged part in the Ridolfi plot.
- The school I'm now going to attainted is in Boston and this makes me so much more excited for it. /Film Boston - Bong Joon Ho’s Mother; Jonathan Demme Accepts the Coolidge Award; The Art of the Steal | /Film
- After it was clear beyond dispute that the criminal was no longer fit to live, he was called attaint, stained, or blackened, and before 6 and 7 Vict., c. 85 p. 1, could not be called as a witness in any court. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
- Where, risen from a doubtful seat and half attainted stall, October 7th, 2008
- They paused facing each other, and examined eagerly into their respective means of defence before hazarding a blow, which, if it missed, its attaint would certainly be fatally requited. Count Robert of Paris
- Dibs and dabs of news continued to filter down to the house in Carter Lane, but all of London knew of it when Will was attainted and sentenced to die. Secrets of the Tudor Court
- Act through Parliament which declared that nothing contained in the dictatory law of Queen Anne gave the privilege of a natural born subject to any child, born or to be born abroad, whose father at the time of his or her birth either stood attainted of high treason, or was in the actual service of a foreign state in enmity to the crown of Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton