Jousting vs Attaint - What's the difference?
jousting | attaint |
A medieval European sport in which mounted knights charged at each other bearing lances.
(figurative) Any activity in which two people spar with each other verbally.
(obsolete) Convicted, attainted.
(obsolete) Attainted; corrupted.
(archaic) To subject to attainder; to condemn (someone) to death and extinction of all civil rights.
(archaic) To subject to calumny; to accuse of a crime or dishonour.
To taint; to corrupt, sully.
* 1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.i:
(archaic) A blow or strike, especially in jousting.
* 2009 , Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 484:
A wound on the leg of a horse caused by a blow
(obsolete, legal) The giving of a false verdict by a jury; the conviction of such a jury, and the reversal of the verdict
As nouns the difference between jousting and attaint
is that jousting is a medieval European sport in which mounted knights charged at each other bearing lances while attaint is a blow or strike, especially in jousting.As verbs the difference between jousting and attaint
is that jousting is present participle of lang=en while attaint is to subject to attainder; to condemn (someone) to death and extinction of all civil rights.As an adjective attaint is
convicted, attainted.jousting
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Noun
Verb
(head)attaint
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Alternative forms
* atteintAdjective
(en adjective)- (Shakespeare)
Verb
(en verb)- Amoret right fearefull was and faint, / Lest she with blame her honor should attaint [...].
Noun
(en noun)- 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, maving at the right speed.
