Attaintment

Quick meaning: Attaintment is a noun meaning Misspelling of attainment.

Meaning

Misspelling of attainment.

More Meanings

1. (archaic, law) Attainder, attainture; conviction.

Example Sentences

There is that prouokes me to speake against this law of attaintment, they say I am not indifferent.

For where the party may have an attaintment, there no damages shall be assessed by the Court, if the same be not found by the Jury; and therefore the Court would be advised of it: […]

The same day brought him intelligence of his wife's desertion, and of his attaintment as a traitor; and, further, that this accusation had been chiefly brought about by the intrigues of his former partner.

So zealous was he for good morals, that he drew upon himself the imputation of a leaning to the heresy of the Jansenists […] Yet Olier’s catholicity was past attaintment, and in his horror of Jansenists he yielded to the Jesuits alone.

Word Forms

• attaintments

Synonyms for attaintment

Depending on context, synonyms include censure, dispraise, judgement, proscription, attainder, attainture.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include taintment, attainture, attainor, attaindre, atteint, attainder.

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