Definition of "attainting" []

• Present participle of attaint. (verb)

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• "In the first, Cardinal Wolsey contrives the attainting of his enemy, the Duke of Buckingham."
• "In 1585 he sat as a peer in Perrot's Parliament, assenting to the attainting of the Earl of"
• "President, by two unconstitutional bills, one attainting the whole people of the South, and the other aimed at the authority of the"