attainture

1. (obsolete) A state of being found guilty of an offence.Examples: "[…] thus, I fear, at last Hume’s knavery will be the duchess’ wreck, And her attainture will be Humphrey’s fall:"; "1637, Philemon Holland (translator), Britain, or A Chorographicall Description […] by William Camden, London: George Latham, “The O-Neales, and their rebellions in our time,” p. 122, The title and place of Earle of Tir-Oen was presently granted: but as touching the inheritance, considering that upon the forfaiture and attainture of Shan O-Neale the Kings of England were invested therein, the matter was referred unto Queene Elizabeth:"Synonyms: attainder, attaintment, condemnationobsolete

2. (obsolete) Imputation of dishonour.Examples: "[…] you may come, And take more strickt directions from his highnesse, Then he thinkes fit his letters should containe, Without the least attainture of your valure;"; "[…] they must dig up the good name of these prime worthies […] and brand them as the Papists did thir bodies; and those thir pure unblamable spirits, which live not only in heaven, but in thir writings, they must attaint with new attaintures which no Protestant ever before aspers’t them with."Synonyms: attainder, disgraceobsolete

3. (obsolete) Unhealthy bodily condition.Examples: "[…] if the infirmitie b[e] old and dangerous, or if there b[e] any attainture in the Lungs or L[i]uer […]"; "But because there is but one Truth, and one perfection, I will, under the description of the perfect Horse, that is untainted, shew all the imperfections and attaintures, that either nature or mischance can put upon the Horse of greatest deformity."Synonyms: diseaseobsolete