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   attorn

   /əˈtəːn/

   verb

   • 1. formally make or acknowledge a transfer of something.
   • ▪ transfer (something) to someone else: "a lord might attorn his vassals service to some other"

   Word Origin Middle English (in the senses ‘turn, change, transform’): from Old French atorner ‘appoint, assign’, from a- (from Latin ad ‘to, at’) + torner ‘to turn’. The spelling with o rather than u or ou, as might have been expected in English, is due to the late Anglo-Norman French form attorner, adopted in legal use.

   Scrabble Points: 6

   • A

     1

   • T

     1

   • T

     1

   • O

     1

   • R

     1

   • N

     1

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