Meaning of attainture | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A state of being found guilty of an offence.
   obsolete
2. Imputation of dishonour.
   obsolete
3. Unhealthy bodily condition.
   obsolete

Examples

“[…] thus, I fear, at last⟳ Hume’s knavery will be the duchess’ wreck, And her attainture will be Humphrey’s fall⟳:”

“1637, Philemon Holland (translator), Britain, or A Chorographicall Description […] by William Camden, London: George Latham, “The O-Neales, and their rebellions in our time,” p. 122, The title and place⟳ of Earle of Tir-Oen was presently granted: but as touching the inheritance, considering that upon the forfaiture and attainture of Shan O-Neale the Kings of England were invested therein, the matter⟳ was referred unto Queene Elizabeth:”

“[…] you may come⟳, And take⟳ more strickt directions from his highnesse, Then he thinkes fit his letters should containe, Without the least attainture of your valure;”

“[…] they must dig⟳ up the good name⟳ of these prime worthies […] and brand them as the Papists did thir bodies; and those thir pure unblamable spirits, which live⟳ not only in heaven, but in thir writings, they must attaint with new attaintures which no Protestant ever before aspers’t them with.”

“[…] if the infirmitie b[e] old and dangerous, or if there b[e] any attainture in the Lungs or L[i]uer […]”

“But because there is but one Truth, and one perfection, I will, under the description of the perfect Horse, that is untainted, shew all the imperfections and attaintures, that either nature or mischance can put⟳ upon the Horse of greatest deformity.”

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