attaint taint, stain:
“brags of his own attaint,”
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, iii. 2.
16
;
“over-bears attaint,”
HENRY V., iv. Prologue,
39;
“nor any man an attaint,”
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, i. 2.
25
;
“poison thee with my attaint,”
THE RAPE OF LUCRECE, 1072.

