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)
- 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
- 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
- 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
Origin of attainteth
attaint + -eth
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