Verdict vs Attaint - What's the difference?
verdict | attaint |
(lb) A decision on an issue of fact in a civil or criminal case or an inquest.
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*:Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty —is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
An opinion or judgement.
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(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 verdict and attaint
is that verdict is (lb) a decision on an issue of fact in a civil or criminal case or an inquest while attaint is (archaic) a blow or strike, especially in jousting.As an adjective attaint is
(obsolete) convicted, attainted.As a verb attaint is
(archaic) to subject to attainder; to condemn (someone) to death and extinction of all civil rights.verdict
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(wikipedia verdict)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
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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.
