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Attainment

noun

The act of achieving an aim.

Arrival at a new stage.

An ability that has been acquired by training. Synonyms: accomplishment, acquirement, acquisition, skill.

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"Attainment" Quotes from Famous Books

... article on Rossetti Whichcote, Benjamin Will, power of Wordsworth, William attainment of vision debt to Vaughan Duddon Sonnets Excursion fallacy of usual conception of mediation of Ode on Intimations of Immortality Prelude Recluse Solitary Reaper Stepping Westward study of Tintern Abbey value of common ...

— Mysticism in English Literature • Caroline F. E. Spurgeon

... painter demanded money. He gave away his pictures, because, with an artist's pride, he maintained that their price could not be estimated. There is a tradition that Zeuxis laughed himself to death over an old woman painted by him. He arrived at illusion of the senses, regarded as a high attainment in art, as in the instance recorded of his grapes. He belonged to the Asiatic school, whose head- quarters were at Ephesus, the peculiarities of which were accuracy of imitation, the exhibition of sensual charms, and the gratification of sensual tastes. He went to Athens about the time ...

— The Old Roman World • John Lord

... merely gave us more collectivism plus more democracy, might carry us equally well either towards Socialism or in the opposite direction. The ultimate goal of present society does not give us a ready-made plan of action by a mathematical process of dividing its attainment into so many ...

— Socialism As It Is - A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement • William English Walling

... In striving for the attainment of these objects, I have been but one among many, and I shall be well content to be remembered, or even not remembered, as such. Circumstances, among which I am proud to reckon the devoted kindness of ...

— Lectures and Essays • Thomas Henry Huxley

... disappointed at this unlooked-for failure of her schemes, she was better enabled to overcome them. Resolving to leave her designs against the peace of Caroline and her mother henceforth to chance, all her energies were now put in action for the attainment of one grand object, to so work upon the disappointed Viscount as herself to take the place in his favour which Caroline had occupied. Her reply to his letter, which he had earnestly requested might enclose Caroline's, ...

— The Mother's Recompense, Volume I. - A Sequel to Home Influence in Two Volumes. • Grace Aguilar

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