All 5 Uses of
acquire
in
Mansfield Park
- I would rather have an inferior degree of beauty, of my own choice, and acquired progressively.†
Chpt 6 *
- One does not see much of this influence and importance in society, and how can it be acquired where they are so seldom seen themselves?†
Chpt 9
- Fanny began to dread the meeting with her aunts and Tom, under so dreadful a humiliation; and Susan to feel with some anxiety, that all her best manners, all her lately acquired knowledge of what was practised here, was on the point of being called into action.†
Chpt 46
- I only said in reply, that from my heart I wished her well, and earnestly hoped that she might soon learn to think more justly, and not owe the most valuable knowledge we could any of us acquire, the knowledge of ourselves and of our duty, to the lessons of affliction, and immediately left the room.†
Chpt 47
- …still lived together; for Mary, though perfectly resolved against ever attaching herself to a younger brother again, was long in finding among the dashing representatives, or idle heir-apparents, who were at the command of her beauty, and her 20,000, any one who could satisfy the better taste she had acquired at Mansfield, whose character and manners could authorise a hope of the domestic happiness she had there learned to estimate, or put Edmund Bertram sufficiently out of her head.†
Chpt 48
Definition:
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(acquire) obtain (come into the possession of something)