Meanings of attaint in English

That perceived Sir Bors, and suffered him till he was nigh attaint.

For yourself, you are, by the Prince's evidence, freed from the attaint.

It is an attaint upon character; a sort of privateering on family property.

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

Beaming in beauty, supreme in virtue, the resplendent aegis of truth shields her from attaint!

Hereditaryship is, in this sense, as much an attaint upon principle, as an outrage upon society.

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

Must they attaint me as a woman?

During their short ascendency they had done nothing but slay, and burn, and pillage, and demolish, and attaint, and confiscate.

Ye can see the power with her o' this foreign fiddler, that it drives her so to attaint her own brother.

Allan Broderick being chosen speaker of the commons, they ordered a bill to be brought in to attaint the pretender and all his adherents.

The blood of one convicted of high treason is "attaint," and his deprivations extend to his descendants, unless Parliament remove the attainder.

They proposed that the queen should be attainted by a separate bill.

In due course he was attainted, and his little estate forfeited.

The Earl Marischal was attainted for his share in the rebellion of 1715.-E.

My Lord Essex may be tried by a court, or attainted in Parliament.