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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quotation dates: 1584-1626

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Attaint, Attent, p.p. [ME. ateynt (1303), atteint, ataynte, OF. ateint, ataint: see Attaint,v.] Attainted; adversely affected.a1585 Maitland Quarto MS lxv. 68.
Thow may not duire with sorrow thus attent
c1590 Fowler 384.
But what excuse may me availe? My conscience is attaint
1622-6 Bisset II. 213/12.
Quhasaevir did utherwyse, and is attent and convict thairof, he salbe Imprisoned

1657

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