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Definition of Attaining
1. attain [v] - See also: attain
Lexicographical Neighbors of Attaining
Literary usage of Attaining
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1915)
"... the effect of a direction that the terest given ia "to be au absolute interest
legacy shall "vest" immediately, to keep i on" attaining a certain age, ..."
2. The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle (1891)
"Let us describe these virtues then, starting i attaining afresh from the beginning.
... attaining ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1845)
"and to their respective heirs male " are on condition of taking the testator's
name ; the residue of the personal property bequeathed to A. on attaining the ..."
4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"Though prevented by Gothic architecture from attaining full development, painting
was still able to manifest itself in works on canvas and glass. ..."
5. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1879)
"attaining HER MAJORITY. re. ч, Accept my wann felicitations ! This hour should
ring reaction's knell, 1 in л vi i, ma belle ! ..."
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