ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. Unstained, unspotted; free from blemish.
1592. Shaks., Rom. & Jul., I. ii. 90. With vnattainted eye, Compare her face with some that I shall show.
1600. W. Watson, Decacordon (1602), 274. [The catholics] liue in sorrow, heauiness, and suspition had of their vnattainted loyalties in generall, for some priuate offences in speciall.
1641. Milton, Reformation, II. Wks. 1851, III. 54. To … ingage the unattainted Honour of English Knighthood … for so unworthy a purpose.
1716. Swift, Misc. Poems, To Earl of Oxford, 8. Virtue repuls’t, yet knows not to repine; But shall with unattainted Honour shine.
1845. Hirst, Com. Mammoth, etc., 44. That bears on high in knightly fight An unattainted crest.
2. Not attainted in law.
1794. W. Hutchinson, Hist. Cumbld., I. 378. Whereupon it was adjudged that the title remained unattainted.
1821. Byron, Two Foscari, I. i. Wouldst thou have His state descend to his children, as it must, If he die unattainted?
