English to Hindi Dictionary

Hindi meaning of Attaint

attaint

/ कलंकित करना, बदनाघ् करना

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English Dictionary:

1. Attaint

[p. p.]

- Attainted; corrupted.

2. Attaint

[v.]

- A touch or hit.
- A blow or wound on the leg of a horse, made by overreaching.
- A writ which lies after judgment, to inquire whether a jury has given a false verdict in any court of record; also, the convicting of the jury so tried.
- A stain or taint; disgrace. See Taint.
- An infecting influence.

3. Attaint

[v. t.]

- To attain; to get act; to hit.
- To find guilty; to convict; -- said esp. of a jury on trial for giving a false verdict.
- To subject (a person) to the legal condition formerly resulting from a sentence of death or outlawry, pronounced in respect of treason or felony; to affect by attainder.
- To accuse; to charge with a crime or a dishonorable act.
- To affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt.
- To stain; to obscure; to sully; to disgrace; to cloud with infamy.