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attainture

[uh-teyn-cher]

noun

Obsolete.
  1. attainder.

  2. imputation.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of attainture1

1530–40; attaint + -ure, modeled on Medieval Latin attinctūra
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Example Sentences

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It certainly did occur to me that this claim might have been rested upon his supposed attainture.

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Well, so its stands; and thus, I fear, at last Hume's knavery will be the duchess' wrack, And her attainture will be Humphrey's fall.

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