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/ətˈeɪnəbəl/ Listen

adjective

Attainable adj.

Capable of being attained or reached by efforts of the mind or body; capable of being compassed or accomplished by efforts directed to the object. "The highest pitch of perfection attainable in this life."

Obtainable. (Obs.) "General Howe would not permit the purchase of those articles (clothes and blankets) in Philadelphia, and they were not attainable in the country."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... get some editorship that will answer my purpose. Frank Pierce, who was with us at college, offered me his influence to obtain an office in the Exploring Expedition; but I believe that he was mistaken in supposing that a vacancy existed. If such a post were attainable, I should certainly accept it; for, though fixed so long to one spot, I have always had a desire to run round the world.... I intend in a week or two to come out of my owl's nest, and not return till late in the ...

— Nathaniel Hawthorne • George E. Woodberry

... ministry, his practical mind, more clear-sighted than foreseeing, was alarmed at the absence of all influences for the government of Ireland. The tranquillity which might result from a reformed tenure of the soil, must, if attainable, be a distant blessing, and at present he saw only the obstacles to its fulfilment—prejudiced landlords, and the claims and necessities of pauper millions. He shrank from a theory which might be an illusion. He ...

— Lord George Bentinck - A Political Biography • Benjamin Disraeli

... are matters affecting the happiness of the homes of England, and we, who are the representatives and guardians of those homes, when the grand question of war is before us, should know at least that we have a case—that success is probable—and that an object is attainable, which may be commensurate with ...

— Speeches on Questions of Public Policy, Volume 1 • John Bright

... a means of bettering their own condition, and prospectively that of their posterity, but also, as an end for its own sake, conferring on them privileges, and a social estimation not otherwise attainable. ...

— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society

... how far St. Francis himself adopted it from others; but a conviction that holiness of life had deteriorated in the Church and the cloister by reason of the excessive wealth of monks and ecclesiastics was prevalent everywhere, and a belief was growing that sanctity was attainable only by those who were ready to part with all their worldly possessions and give to such as needed. Even before St. Francis had applied to Innocent the Third, the poor men of Lyons had come to Rome begging for papal sanction ...

— The Coming of the Friars • Augustus Jessopp

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