All 4 Uses of
attain
in
Mansfield Park
- From this moment there was a return of his former jealousy, which Maria, from increasing hopes of Crawford, was at little pains to remove; and the chances of Mr. Rushworth's ever attaining to the knowledge of his two-and-forty speeches became much less.†
Chpt 18
- His duties would be established, but the wife who was to share, and animate, and reward those duties, might yet be unattainable.†
Chpt 26
- She had hardly even attained the wish to do it.†
Chpt 32 *
- Not to excite suspicion by her look or manner was now an object worth attaining; and she felt equal to almost anything that might save her from her aunt Norris.†
Chpt 32
Definition:
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(attain) to gain or reach something with effort