All 3 Uses of
acquisition
in
Sense and Sensibility
- Sir John was delighted; for to a man, whose prevailing anxiety was the dread of being alone, the acquisition of two, to the number of inhabitants in London, was something.†
Chpt 25 *
- After a pause of several minutes, their silence was broken, by his asking her in a voice of some agitation, when he was to congratulate her on the acquisition of a brother?†
Chpt 27
- Elinor had some difficulty here to refrain from observing, that she thought Fanny might have borne with composure, an acquisition of wealth to her brother, by which neither she nor her child could be possibly impoverished.†
Chpt 41
Definition:
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(acquisition) obtaining possession of something; or the thing possessed