Associations to the word «Attainder»

Wiktionary

ATTAINDER, noun. (legal) (rare) The state a prisoner enters once a death sentence (usually for treason) had been issued; the state of being stripped of all civil rights.
ATTAINDER, noun. (obsolete) A stain; a state of dishonour or condemnation.

Dictionary definition

ATTAINDER, noun. Cancellation of civil rights.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King