attaint

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

From The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc by De Quincey, Thomas

Rosader's third Sonnet     Of virtuous love myself may boast alone,       Since no suspect my service may attaint:     For perfect fair she is the only one,       Whom I esteem for my belovèd saint.

From Rosalynde or, Euphues' Golden Legacy by Baldwin, Edward Chauncey

Now Parliament was called on by the king himself to attaint his ministers and his Queens.

From History of the English People, Volume IV by Green, John Richard

Even to have kicked an outsider might have been held to attaint the foot concerned in that operation, so that, perhaps, it would have required an act of Parliament to restore its purity of blood.

From The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc by De Quincey, Thomas

Do they mean to attaint and disable backwards all the kings that have reigned before the Revolution, and consequently to stain the throne of England with the blot of a continual usurpation?

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund