Both Uses of
acquisition
in
The Bluest Eye
- All his life he had had a fondness for things—not the acquisition of wealth or beautiful objects, but a genuine love of worn objects: a coffee pot that had been his mother's, a welcome mat from the door of a rooming house he once lived in, a quilt from a Salvation Army store counter.†
Chpt 4acquisition = obtaining; or possession
- Our manhood was denned by acquisitions.†
Chpt 4 *acquisitions = things possessed
Definition:
obtaining possession of something; or the thing possessed