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Definition of Attainments
1. attainment [n] - See also: attainment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Attainments
Literary usage of Attainments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Study of Women Delinquents in New York State by Mabel Ruth Fernald, Mary Holmes Stevens Hayes, Almena Dawley, Beardsley Ruml (1920)
"Accordingly, in measuring an individual's attainments, we may be measuring his
mental capacity more than we are measuring the effect of general school ..."
2. Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams, Sixth President of the United by William Henry Seward, John Mather Austin (1849)
"FEW public men in any country have possessed attainments more varied than were
those of Mr. Adams. Every department of literature and science received more ..."
3. The History of England from the Accession of James II by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1907)
"In such circumstances the standard of female attainments was necessarily low;
and it was more dangerous to be above that standard than to be beneath it. ..."
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