All 7 Uses of
attain
in
Jane Eyre
- Again I reflected: I scarcely knew what school was: Bessie sometimes spoke of it as a place where young ladies sat in the stocks, wore backboards, and were expected to be exceedingly genteel and precise: John Reed hated his school, and abused his master; but John Reed's tastes were no rule for mine, and if Bessie's accounts of school-discipline (gathered from the young ladies of a family where she had lived before coming to Gateshead) were somewhat appalling, her details of certain accomplishments attained by these same young ladies were, I thought, equally attractive.†
p. 30.7attained = gained or reached something with effort
- I was sent to Lowood to get an education; and it would be of no use going away until I have attained that object.†
p. 66.5
- Yes — yes — the end is not so difficult; if I had only a brain active enough to ferret out the means of attaining it.†
p. 102.8 *attaining = gaining or reaching something with effort
- She was very showy, but she was not genuine: she had a fine person, many brilliant attainments; but her mind was poor, her heart barren by nature: nothing bloomed spontaneously on that soil; no unforced natural fruit delighted by its freshness.†
p. 215.9attainments = things gained with effort
- To attain this end, are you justified in overleaping an obstacle of custom — a mere conventional impediment which neither your conscience sanctifies nor your judgment approves?†
p. 252.4attain = gain or reach something with effort
- His chest heaved once, as if his large heart, weary of despotic constriction, had expanded, despite the will, and made a vigorous bound for the attainment of liberty.†
p. 420.2attainment = the gaining or reaching of something with effort; or something gained with effort
- Mary's is a clergyman, a college friend of her brother's, and, from his attainments and principles, worthy of the connection.†
p. 520.8attainments = things gained with effort
Definition:
to gain or reach something with effort