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attainteth

attainteth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of attaint.

Meaning of attaint

Verb

attaint (third-person singular simple present attaints, present participle attainting, simple past and past participle attainted)

  1. (archaic) To subject to attainder; to condemn (someone) to death and extinction of all civil rights.
    • Tom Truth is attainted. All he has — not much — is forfeit to the king, and he is entitled to nothing but a traitorʼs death.2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 216
  2. (archaic) To subject to calumny; to accuse of a crime or dishonour.
    • CHARLES STUART. Attainted and proscribed by name and grade in his British regiment.1929, William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury, New York: Vintage, published 1956, Appendix, p. 405
  3. (archaic) To taint; to corrupt, sully.
    • Amoret right fearefull was and faint, / Lest she with blame her honor should attaint […].1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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Origin of attainteth

attaint + -eth

Questions about attainteth

What is attainteth the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Attainteth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of attaint.

Words near attainteth in the dictionary

  1. attainor
  2. attainors
  3. attains
  4. attaint
  5. attainted
  6. attainteth
  7. attainting
  8. attaintment
  9. attaintments
  10. attaints
  11. attainture

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