Attainder is valid Scrabble Word

Is attainder a scrabble word?
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9 letters word
10 points in Scrabble
11 points in WWF

Definitions for ATTAINDER in dictionary:

NOUN:

the loss of civil rights, formerly a result of outlawry or a death sentence
the forfeiture of land and civil rights suffered as a consequence of a sentence of death for treason or felony
The act of attainting, or the state of being attainted; the extinction of the civil rights and capacities of a person, consequent upon sentence of death or outlawry; as, an act of attainder.
A stain or staining; state of being in dishonor or condemnation.
cancellation of civil rights
(formerly) the extinction of a person's civil rights resulting from a sentence of death or outlawry on conviction for treason or felony

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

extinction of the civil rights and capacities of a person upon sentence of death or outlawry usually after a conviction of treason
(formerly) the extinction of a person\'s civil rights resulting from a sentence of death or outlawry on conviction for treason or felony

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How to use ATTAINDER in a sentence

A bill of attainder was hastily passed by the Parliament he had ruled.
For ten years he remained concealed, but in the mean time both title and estate were forfeited by attainder.
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A formal Act of attainder was passed upon Tyrone, Tyrconnel, and some of the other Ulster landowners.
In Pennsylvania bills of attainder were passed against no fewer than four hundred and ninety persons.
No attainder shall work corruption of blood in any case.
Probably, the new sacrifice was the concluding ceremony of what may be called the reversal of attainder.
In case of outlawry or attainder, the waste reverted to the Crown, which, according to custom, held possession of it for a year and a day.
Though no friend to Strafford, he endeavoured to save his life, desiring only to see him excluded from office, and as a witness was excused from voting on the attainder.
An act of grace for reversing the attainder of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, also passed this session without opposition.

The attainder itself, as passed by the Irish parliament, was an instance of contemptible servility to the ruling powers by that corrupt assembly.
It was a bill to reverse the attainder which had been passed upon Popery, and the natural consequences of this reversal were obvious.
That gentleman had been permitted to pass an act of attainder, which had lain unnoticed on the table for six weeks.
Potter was one of the four bishops who advised Charles upon the attainder of Strafford.
The Wiltshire earldom died with him and the Irish earldom was for a time forfeited, his two brothers, John and Thomas, sharing his attainder.
Attainder and confiscation are acts of sovereign power, not acts of legislation.
Attainder, bill of, provision on prohibition of, 19.
But Parliament was loyal, and the Commons ordered a bill of attainder against Monmouth for high treason.
They withheld the power from Congress, and thus forbade its exercise by that body, and they provided in the Constitution that no State should pass any bill of attainder.
Nevertheless, here is a bill of attainder against 9,000,000 people at once.
No bill of attainder, or ex-post-facto law, shall he passed.
Fortunately, and thanks to our insignificance, we had been overlooked in the first act of attainder, and, taking warning by that, my mother had gratefully accepted Mr.

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