All 6 Uses of
attain
in
Dante's Inferno
- To the illustration and carrying out of this interior meaning even the minutest details of external incident are made to contribute, with an appropriateness of significance, and with a freedom from forced interpretation or artificiality of construction such as no other writer of allegory has succeeded in attaining.†
Canto T.O.
- This end was attained through that knowledge of God of which the soul was capable, and through love which was in proportion to knowledge.†
Canto T.O. *
- This liberty is to be attained through the right use of reason, illuminated by Divine Grace; it consists in the perfect accord of the will of man with the will of God.†
Canto T.O.
- Though this accursed people never can attain to true perfection, it expects thereafter to be more than now.†
Canto 4-6
- That which you tell me of my course I write, and reserve it to be glossed with other text,[1] by a Lady, who will know how, if I attain to her.†
Canto 13-15
- "Now it behoves thee thus to put off sloth," said the Master, "for, sitting upon down or under quilt, one attains not fame, without which he who consumes his life leaves of himself such trace on earth as smoke in air, or in water the foam.†
Canto 22-24
Definition:
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(attain) to gain or reach something with effort