Attainder Synonyms

ə-tāndər
Cancellation of civil rights
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. civil death

Words Related to Attainder

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. bill of attainder
  2. attaint
  3. escheat
  4. baliol

Attainder Sentence Examples

  • Thus three of the rebel lords were pardoned after impeachment and attainder in 1715.

  • He was not released until the accession of Mary, parliament restoring his dukedom on his petition for reversal of the attainder.

  • In 1683 he appeared at the Old Bailey as a witness in defence of Lord Russell, and in June 1685 he protested alone against the revision of Stafford's attainder.

  • In the political troubles which preceded the outbreak of the Civil War, Hopton, as member of parliament successively for Bath, Somerset and Wells, at first opposed the royal policy, but after Strafford's attainder (for which he voted) he gradually became an ardent supporter of Charles, and at the beginning of the Great Rebellion he was made lieutenant-general under the marquess of Hertford in the west.

  • At the commencement of the following reign his attainder was reversed and his brother Henry restored to the earldom; and Henry being appointed guardian to the young king Edward III., assisted him to throw off the yoke of Mortimer.

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