Definition of Attainer

1. one that attains [n -S] - See also: attains

Lexicographical Neighbors of Attainer

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attaghan
attaghans
attagirl
attain
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attainable
attainableness
attainably
attainder
attaindered
attainders
attaindre
attained
attainer (current term)
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attainted
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Literary usage of Attainer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sacred Books of the East: Comprising the Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta by Epiphanius Wilson, Aśvaghoṣa, Samuel Beal, Friedrich Max Müller, James Darmesteter, George Sale, Dharmaraksha (1900)
"Let him say: ‘The deity called Speech is the attainer, may it attain ... ‘The deity called mind is the attainer of it, may it attain this for me from him. ..."

2. The World's Great Classics by Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne (1899)
"Let him say: ' The deity called Speech is the attainer, may it attain ... The deity called mind is the attainer of it, may it attain this for me from him. ..."

3. The Discourse on the All-Embracing Net of Views: The Brahmajala Sutta and by Bhikkhu Bodhi, Gautama Buddha (1992)
"Nevertheless, because the perception in the attainment presents itself as uniform, the commentary ascribes to the attainer the doctrine that the self is of ..."

4. Transcript Appeals ... the File of Opinion in Cases Argued Before the Court by New York (State). Court of Appeals, Joel Tiffany (1907)
"It is essentially, in the particulars indicated, both a bill of attainer, or of pains and penalties, and an expost facto law. We are not without authority ..."

5. The Life of the Buddha: According to the Pali Canon by Bhikkhu Nanamoli, Ñāṇamoli (1992)
"... explained as the attainer of the path and the attainer of its fruition in the case of each of the four stages (paths) of realization. ..."

6. Index of Economic Material in Documents of the States of the United States by Adelaide Rosalia Hasse (1907)
"Communication from surveyor gen. re. state title to certain land on Susquehanna River near Oswego, supposed to be forfeited by attainer of JT Kempe, ..."

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