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Attainment   /ətˈeɪnmənt/   Listen
noun
Attainment  n.  
1.
The act of attaining; the act of arriving at or reaching; hence, the act of obtaining by efforts. "The attainment of every desired object."
2.
That which is attained to, or obtained by exertion; acquirement; acquisition; (plural), mental acquirements; knowledge; as, literary and scientific attainments.






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"Attainment" Quotes from Famous Books



... the objective. The means for its attainment is a society organized in terms of producers groups, and living in accordance with the highest known standards ...
— The Next Step - A Plan for Economic World Federation • Scott Nearing

... production and distribution have actually outgrown the form of management by joint-stock companies, and when, therefore, the taking them over by the State has become economically inevitable, only then—even if it is the State of to-day that effects this—is there an economic advance, the attainment of another step preliminary to the taking over of all productive forces by society itself." "This necessity," he continues, "for conversion into State property is felt first in the great institutions for intercourse and communication—the ...
— Violence and the Labor Movement • Robert Hunter

... and value of the performances, given—as Oratorio should be—in the church. To hear l'Enfance du Christ (Berlioz) as performed at the Sorbonne, with its particular facilities for obtaining the ppp effects of the distant or receding angelic chorus, is to be impressed to a degree impossible of attainment ...
— Style in Singing • W. E. Haslam

... his real discoveries.—YOUNG, Works, iii. 621. Error is almost always partial truth, and so consists in the exaggeration or distortion of one verity by the suppression of another, which qualifies and modifies the former.—MIVART, Genesis of Species, 3. The attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors.—HUXLEY: WARD, Reign of Victoria, ii. 337. Jede neue tief eingreifende Wahrheit hat meiner Ansicht mach erst das ...
— Lectures on Modern history • Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

... ungirdled waist, wrought into peaks before and behind, and its gathered swell below, is an instance in point, of utter disregard of Nature and deliberate violation of harmony, and the consequent attainment of discord and absurdity in every particular. It is rivalled only by the dress-coat, which, with quite unimportant variations, has been worn by gentlemen for fifty years. The collar of this, when stiff and high, quite equals the berthe in absurdity and ugliness; and the useless skirt is the converse ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 24, Oct. 1859 • Various


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