Definition of "attaints" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of attaint. (verb)

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• "Stein: The Constitution says you cannot pass a bill of attainter, which means a bill which attaints a family or person."
• "Thats in all just my perception… and the only way open to us is the hope, that after all a new spirit attaints a lot of US-people!"
• "But I cannot see that this attaints an institution which happens to employ me, or authenticates the pretensions of Mr. Ruhm as a monitor of educational standards."