- (n.) A stain or staining; state of being in dishonor or condemnation.
- (n.) The act of attainting or the state of being attainted; the extinction of the civil rights and capacities of a person, consequent upon sentence of death or outlawry; as, an act of attainder.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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