Attaint

My tender youth was never yet attaint With any passion of inflaming love,

Tom Truth is attainted. All he has — not much — is forfeit to the king, and he is entitled to nothing but a traitorʼs death.

CHARLES STUART. Attainted and proscribed by name and grade in his British regiment.

Amoret right fearefull was and faint, / Lest she with blame her honor should attaint […].

Jem felt that his own character had been attainted; and that to many it might still appear suspicious.

This politic selection did not alter the fortune of the field, the challengers were still successful: one of their antagonists was overthrown, and both the others failed in the “attaint”, that is, in striking the helmet and shield of their antagonist firmly and strongly, with the lance held in a direct line, so that the weapon might break unless the champion was overthrown.

At the moment of impact, the king’s eyes are open, his body braced for the atteint; he takes the blow perfectly, its force absorbed by a body securely armoured, moving in the right direction, moving at the right speed.