Word Meanings - ATTAINTMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Attainder; attainture; conviction.

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• CONVICTION
  A judgment of condemnation entered by a court having jurisdiction; the act or process of finding guilty, or the state of being found guilty of any crime by a legal tribunal. Conviction may accrue two ways. Blackstone. 3. The act of convincing of
• ATTAINDER
  Attainder is often erroneously referred to F. teindre tie stain. See 1. 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
• ATTAINTURE
  Attainder; disgrace.
• SELF-CONVICTION
  The act of convicting one's self, or the state of being self- convicted.