EGAVE

attainder

About 0.22 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The state a prisoner entered once a death sentence (usually for treason) had been issued; the state of being stripped of all civil rights.
  2. noun A stain; a state of dishonour or condemnation.

Similar words

civil death disentail abatement disenthralment depenalization vanquishment debellation deprivation disenthrallment banishment

Often followed by

of or and was against in for is passed

Word family

attainders

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