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attainder

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9 lettersPart of speech nounSorted aadeinrttStarts with AEnds with R0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. cancellation of civil rights

Word origin

From Anglo-Norman ataindre ("to reach"), with infinitives used as nouns being frequent in Law French. Doublet of attain and attinge.

Used in a sentence

  • Grandpa Piper led thereto by the arm […] and himself thrust into a chair, to support the character of dummy to Henry's prearranged attainder.
  • He lived from all attainder of suspects.
  • Some of the horses were registered under phony papers, their sires having been ruled off the track as doped or doctored. The hereditary attainder rule was very strict.

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