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the legal consequence of judgment of death or outlawry for treason or felony, involving the loss of all civil rights.
Obsolete, .
Historical Examples

He was not released until the accession of Mary, parliament restoring his dukedom on his petition for reversal of the attainder.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 Various

The two fugitives were proceeded against by bill of attainder.
A History of England, Period III. Rev. J. Franck Bright

Three years later Carr’s attainder shifted it over once again.
Sir Walter Ralegh William Stebbing

The House of Lords approved the bill of attainder, and it was sent to the king.
A History of England Charles Oman

A bill of attainder was passed against them in the time of the second George.
The Pagan’s Cup Fergus Hume

The process by attainder practically suppressed any defence.
Ten Tudor Statesmen Arthur D. Innes

In fact, it was the intention of the bill of attainder to brand the wretched object of it with complete and perpetual infamy.
Charles I Jacob Abbott

The consequences of attainder, are forfeiture and corruption of blood.
Novanglus, and Massachusettensis John Adams

No Bill of attainder, or ex-post-facto law, shall be passed.
North America, Volume II (of 2) Anthony Trollope

By his attainder the Norfolk titles were once more forfeited.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 Various

noun
(formerly) the extinction of a person’s civil rights resulting from a sentence of death or outlawry on conviction for treason or felony See also bill of attainder
(obsolete) dishonour
n.

“extinction of rights of a person sentenced to death or outlaw,” mid-15c., from noun use of Old French ataindre “to touch upon, strike, hit, seize, accuse, condemn” (see attain). For use of French infinitives as nouns, especially in legal language, cf. waiver.