Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of attaint
comparative more attainted · superlative most attainted
- Subject to attainder; condemned to death or outlawry, hence stripped of one's titles, hereditary rights, or possessions.
The king stands in your father's place, since your brother is an attainted traitor.
2000 August 8, George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin, “Sansa [Stark]”, in A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire; 3), London: Voyager, →ISBN, page 3171 more example
Besides, Suffolk, attainted – stripped of his hereditary title – was no longer a member of the nobility, merely ‘Ed. Rebel’.
2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 228
Origin
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