attaint
Example Sentences
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Beaming in beauty, supreme in virtue, the resplendent aegis of truth shields her from attaint!
From Anna St. Ives by Thomas Holcroft
Others of his following failed not in the "attaint," and horses and troopers floundered in the sand.
From Under the Rose by Frederic Stewart Isham
And the knight was inclined to attaint his lady for a certain cruelty in the matter; she was being something less than fair to the Unspeakable Perk.
From The Unspeakable Perk by Samuel Hopkins Adams
Bossuet also observes, that at the moment in which Robert was struck with these terrible anathemas, nobody thought or asserted that this excommunication could carry the least attaint to the sovereign authority of this monarch.
From The Power Of The Popes by Pierre Claude Fran?ois Daunou
Again, on the 30th October, a bill was ordered to attaint all such persons as were in rebellion against their Majesties.
From Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry by T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston
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