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How to use attainted in a sentence

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Fisher was deprived, attainted, and beheaded for refusing to acknowledge Henry VIII as supreme head of the Church.
Cecil wanted her attainted in Parliament and executed for her alleged part in the Ridolfi plot.
George was attainted in 1477 and murdered in the Tower of London the following year.
Born in Bensberg, near Cologne, Hubert Käppel is one of the rare German guitarists to have attainted international fame.
He was posthumously attainted of treason, and along with those of other deceased regicides, his corpse was exhumed and hanged, and his skull impaled in Westminster Hall.
Even those who escaped execution might be declared attainted, and therefore possessing no property, and of no value to a captor.
Strafford was put on trial and ultimately attainted for treason.
The king stands in your father's place, since your brother is an attainted traitor.
York and his supporters were attainted at the Parliament of Devils as traitors.
Being attainted, only by a successful invasion could the Yorkists recover their lands and titles.
Hastings was not attainted and Richard sealed an indenture that placed Hastings' widow Katherine directly under his own protection.
Oliver Cromwell, Henry Ireton, Judge Thomas Pride, and Judge John Bradshaw were posthumously attainted for high treason.
During the many periods in which the Dukes were attainted, another individual was appointed to the post.
In the past, peerages were sometimes forfeit or attainted under Acts of Parliament, most often as the result of treason on the part of the holder.
Nevertheless he was attainted along with the other plotters, his head was set on a pike either at Northampton or London Bridge, and his estates confiscated.
If all descendants of the attainted peer were to die out, however, then an heir from another branch of the family not affected by the attainder could take the title.
He attainted those who refused to submit to his rule, such as Jasper Tudor and his nephew Henry, naming them traitors and confiscating their lands.
They were attainted by Warwick's only Parliament on 26 November.
Originally, the heads of the Keith family held the office of Earl Marischal, but in 1716, the holder was attainted for treason, and the office has not been regranted.
Examples from Classical Literature
As recorded, he had been attainted of treason a few months prior to his death.
Wintour, the free-born gentleman, and Thomas Winter, the inchoately attainted traitor.
Under Edward IV his lands are naturally granted to other people and he is attainted.
Now if he cut his throat in the train, could he be attainted of felony?
The company launched instant camera in 1948 which attainted instant success.
Shall we believe the oath of an unbeliever attainted of sacrilege?
They proposed that the queen should be attainted by a separate bill.
The warrants were burnt, the attainted persons warned in time to escape.
This Act shall not extend to Persons convicted or attainted in Scotland.
The fifth class of 85 persons are, as we said, not attainted at all.
In 1716, after his son had been attainted, he was made Viscount St. John.
The prisons were choked with attainted and suspected rebels.
Bolingbroke was attainted as a traitor, but was placably restored to his property and inheritance in 1723 during the premiership of Sir Robert Walpole.
It is with inexpressible astonishment that I bear them attainted of pessimism, as if the teaching of a man whose ideal was simple goodness must mean the prevalence of evil.
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