Usually means: Legal declaration of guilt, dishonor.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. attaint: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. attaint: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. attaint: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. attaint: Collins English Dictionary
  5. attaint: Vocabulary.com
  6. attaint: Wordnik
  7. attaint: Wiktionary
  8. attaint: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. attaint: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. attaint: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. attaint: Dictionary.com
  12. Attaint: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Attaint: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. attaint: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. attaint: Rhymezone
  16. Attaint: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. attaint: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. Attaint: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  19. attaint: Free Dictionary
  20. attaint: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. attaint: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. attaint: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. attaint: Merriam-Webster.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. attaint: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See attainted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (attaint)

adjective:  (obsolete) Convicted, attainted.
adjective:  (obsolete) Attainted; corrupted.
verb:  (archaic) To subject to attainder; to condemn (someone) to death and extinction of all civil rights.
verb:  (archaic) To subject to calumny; to accuse of a crime or dishonour.
verb:  (now rare) To taint; to corrupt, sully.
noun:  (archaic) A blow or strike, especially in jousting.
noun:  A wound on the leg of a horse caused by a blow.
noun:  (obsolete, law) The giving of a false verdict by a jury; the conviction of such a jury, and the reversal of the verdict.

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