All 5 Uses
attain
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Lost Horizon
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- After ten years in various parts of Asia he had attained to a somewhat fastidious valuation of places and happenings; and this he was bound to admit promised unusually.†
Chpt 3 *attained = gained or reached something with effort
- Chang replied: "Those of us in full lamahood number about fifty, and there are a few others, like myself, who have not yet attained to complete initiation.†
Chpt 4
- Like myself, she has not yet attained the full initiation.†
Chpt 5
- Thus far had he progressed at Shangri-La, and he remembered that he had attained a similar though far less pleasant equanimity during his years at the War.†
Chpt 9
- Chang added, a little sententiously: "It has always been her way to spare her lovers the moment of satiety that goes with all absolute attainment."†
Chpt 10attainment = the gaining or reaching of something with effort; or something gained with effort
Definitions:
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(1)
(attain) to gain or reach something with effort
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)