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Attainder

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. In the ancient common law, the state of an offender who had been sentenced for a capital offense.

n. Obsolete Dishonor.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The state a prisoner enters once a death sentence (usually for treason) had been issued; the state of being stripped of all civil rights.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. 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.

n. A stain or staining; state of being in dishonor or condemnation.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The act of attainting, or the state of being attainted; the legal consequence of judgment of death or outlawry pronounced in respect of treason or felony: as, a bill of attainder; to remove an attainder.

n. A bringing under some disgrace, stain, or imputation; the state of being in dishonor.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. cancellation of civil rights

Word Usage

"So they pass a bill which is an ex post facto bill as well as a bill of attainder, which is unconstitutional, so they're using the tax code to punish people."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

cancellation

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

remainder

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

escheat noncompliance attainted viceroyalty mulct