Both Uses
acquisition
in
Wuthering Heights
(Edited)
- I declare he is that strange acquisition my late neighbour made, in his journey to Liverpool — a little Lascar, or an American or Spanish castaway.
p. 35.3acquisition = obtaining; or possession
- …she imposed unwittingly on the old lady and gentleman by her ingenious cordiality; gained the admiration of Isabella, and the heart and soul of her brother: acquisitions that flattered her from the first — for she was full of ambition — and led her to adopt a double character without exactly intending to deceive any one.
p. 47.3 *acquisitions = things obtained (gotten and possessed)
Definitions:
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(1)
(acquisition) obtaining possession of something; or the thing possessed
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)