Usually means: Legal extinction of civil rights.
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  1. attainder: Merriam-Webster
  2. attainder: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. attainder: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. attainder: Collins English Dictionary
  5. attainder: Vocabulary.com
  6. Attainder, attainder: Wordnik
  7. attainder: Wiktionary
  8. attainder: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. attainder: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. attainder: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. attainder: Dictionary.com
  12. attainder: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Attainder: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Attainder: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. attainder: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. attainder: Rhymezone
  17. Attainder: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. attainder: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. attainder: FreeDictionary.org
  20. attainder: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. attainder: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. attainder: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. attainder: Merriam-Webster

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  1. ATTAINDER: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. attainder: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. attainder: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  6. Attainder: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. attainder: Encyclopedia

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  1. attainder: A Word A Day

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Definitions from Wiktionary (attainder)

noun:  (law, rare) The state a prisoner enters once a death sentence (usually for treason) had been issued; the state of being stripped of all civil rights.
noun:  (archaic) A stain; a state of dishonour or condemnation.

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