Crossword-Solution: ATTAINDER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Attainder | n. | The act of attainting, or the state of being attainted; the extinction of the civil rights and capacities of a person, consequent upon sentence of death or outlawry; as, an act of attainder. |
| Attainder | n. | A stain or staining; state of being in dishonor or condemnation. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ATTAINDER | anagram | ANTITRADE, TRAINDATE |
We have 8 clues for the answer “ATTAINDER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Bill of ___: legislative conviction | 1 answer |
| FORFEITURE of estate | 1 answer |
| Loss of all civil rights, in law | 1 answer |
| Loss of civil rights. | 1 answer |
| The forfeiting of land and civil rights as a consequence of death sentence | 1 answer |
| Bill of ___ | 5 answers |
| impeachment | 26 answers |
| Indictment | 60 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with ATTAINDER (5)
The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.
What is that? The gentle force of attainder or confiscation or death which, as you are aware, these new Sophists and educators who are the public, apply when their words are powerless.
The act of attainting, or the state of being attainted; the extinction of the civil rights and capacities of a person, consequent upon sentence of death or outlawry; as, an act of attainder.
Many of these hastened to read their recantation to the Marquis of A——; and, as it was easily seen that he took a deep interest in the affairs of his kinsman, the Master of Ravenswood, they were the first to suggest measures for retrieving at least a part of his property, and for restoring him in blood against his father’s attainder.
Seeing that his doom was certain, and wishing to preserve his family from attainder and their property from confiscation, he refused to plead.
Quotes with ATTAINDER (1)
From time to time our national history has been marred by forgetfulness of the Jeffersonian principle that restraint is at the heart of liberty. In 1789 the Federalists adopted Alien and Sedition Acts in a shabby political effort to isolate the Republic from the world and to punish political criticism as seditious libel. In 1865 the Radical Republicans sought to snare private conscience in a web of oaths and affirmations of loyalty. Spokesmen for the South did service for the…
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Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1960–2005).