Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
noun
- the legal consequence of judgment of death or outlawry for treason or felony, involving the loss of all civil rights.
- Obsolete. dishonor.
noun
- (formerly) the extinction of a person’s civil rights resulting from a sentence of death or outlawry on conviction for treason or felonySee also bill of attainder
- obsolete dishonour
“extinction of rights of a person sentenced to death or outlaw,” mid-15c., from noun use of Old French ataindre “to touch upon, strike, hit, seize, accuse, condemn” (see attain). For use of French infinitives as nouns, especially in legal language, cf. waiver.