attaint

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Unneth thy flocks may feed to see thee faint, Thou lost, they lean, and both with woe attaint.

From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles Phillis - Licia by Crow, Martha Foote

He stood attainted by solemn Act of Parliament; and though the judges ruled that the possession of the crown cleared all attaint the stigma and peril remained.

From History of the English People, Volume III The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540 by Green, John Richard

They were wholesomely housed in healthful places, and they were clad fitly for their labor and fitly for their leisure; the caprices of vanity were not suffered to attaint the beauty of the national dress.

From A Traveler from Altruria: Romance by Howells, William Dean

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.

From Waverley Novels — Volume 12 by Scott, Walter, Sir

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

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 by Various