attainted
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
- Simple past tense and past participle of attaint
attainted
- Subject to attainder; condemned to death or outlawry, hence stripped of one's titles, hereditary rights, or possessions.
- 2000, George RR Martin, A Storm of Swords, Bantam 2011, p. 383:
- The king stands in your father's place, since your brother is an attainted traitor.
- 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 228:
- Besides, Suffolk, attainted – stripped of his hereditary title – was no longer a member of the nobility, merely ‘Ed. Rebel’.
- 2000, George RR Martin, A Storm of Swords, Bantam 2011, p. 383:
- (now rare) Tainted, corrupted.
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