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Definition of Attains
1. attain [v] - See also: attain
Lexicographical Neighbors of Attains
Literary usage of Attains
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Confessions of S. Augustine: Book I-X. by Augustine (1886)
"... STUDY OF THE SACRED SCRIPTURES, HE attains AT LAST TO A. TRUE KNOWLEDGE OF
GOD, THOUGH NOT YET RIGHTLY UNDERSTANDING THE INCARNATION OF JESUS CHRIST. ..."
2. Italy and Her Invaders by Thomas Hodgkin (1892)
"... and when attains and his people met face to face in the great Flavian
Amphitheatre — for, of course, the games must go on though all else was falling ..."
3. Select Extra-tropical Plants Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1884)
"attains a height of 90 feet and a stem-circumference of occasionally 70 feet,
... According to Dr. Gibbons the tree attains a height of about 100 feet and a ..."
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1899)
"... obtained the custody of the person of attains ; and the two hostile nations
seemed to be united in the closest bands of friendship and alliance. ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"... equation has at least one root, might well be replaced by a simpler one which
rests on the property that a continuous function attains its extremes. ..."
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