All 6 Uses
attain
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The Souls of Black Folk
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- The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife,—this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self.†
Chpt 1attain = gain or reach something with effort
- Whatever of good may have come in these years of change, the shadow of a deep disappointment rests upon the Negro people,—a disappointment all the more bitter because the unattained ideal was unbounded save by the simple ignorance of a lowly people.†
Chpt 1unattained = not gained or reached despite effortstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unattained means not and reverses the meaning of attained. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- The ideal of liberty demanded for its attainment powerful means, and these the Fifteenth Amendment gave him.†
Chpt 1 *attainment = the gaining or reaching of something with effort; or something gained with effort
- He began to have a dim feeling that, to attain his place in the world, he must be himself, and not another.†
Chpt 1attain = gain or reach something with effort
- We argued, as we thought then rather logically, that no social class was so good, so true, and so disinterested as to be trusted wholly with the political destiny of its neighbors; that in every state the best arbiters of their own welfare are the persons directly affected; consequently that it is only by arming every hand with a ballot,—with the right to have a voice in the policy of the state,—that the greatest good to the greatest number could be attained.†
Chpt 9attained = gained or reached something with effort
- Well sped, my boy, before the world had dubbed your ambition insolence, had held your ideals unattainable, and taught you to cringe and bow.†
Chpt 11unattainable = 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.
Definitions:
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(1)
(attain) to gain or reach something with effort
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)