All 8 Uses
attain
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Fathers and Sons
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- Being accustomed to make conquests, in this instance, too, he soon attained his object, but his easy success did not damp his ardour.†
Chpt 7 *attained = gained or reached something with effort
- On the contrary, he was in still more torturing, still closer bondage to this woman, in whom, even at the very moment when she surrendered herself utterly, there seemed always something still mysterious and unattainable, to which none could penetrate.†
Chpt 7unattainable = not able to be gained or reached with effortstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unattainable means not and reverses the meaning of attainable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- Our higher officials are fond as a rule of nonplussing their subordinates; the methods to which they have recourse to attain that end are rather various.†
Chpt 12attain = gain or reach something with effort
- He could not make up his mind whether Bazarov was attaining his object.†
Chpt 15attaining = gaining or reaching something with effort
- I mean to say—what object do you want to attain?†
Chpt 18attain = gain or reach something with effort
- 'What do you think,' inquired Vassily Ivanovitch, after a short silence, 'will it be in the career of medicine that he will attain the celebrity you anticipate for him?'†
Chpt 21
- He's a man who has attained to the acme of contemporary culture, and he will perform his part with all the comilfo (comme il faut) necessary in such cases.'†
Chpt 24attained = gained or reached something with effort
- They live in the greatest harmony together, and will live perhaps to attain complete happiness ...perhaps love.†
Chpt 28attain = gain or reach something with effort
Definitions:
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(1)
(attain) to gain or reach something with effort
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)