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attainted
Variant of attaint
transitive verb attainted, attainting
- to punish by attainder
- Archaic to disgrace or dishonor
- Archaic to infect
- Archaic to accuse
- Obsolete to prove guilty
noun
- an attainder
- Archaic a taint; disgrace
- Obsolete a touch or hit in tilting
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