Definition of Attaining

1. Verb. (present participle of attain) ¹

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Definition of Attaining

1. attain [v] - See also: attain

Lexicographical Neighbors of Attaining

attain
attainabilities
attainability
attainable
attainableness
attainably
attainder
attaindered
attainders
attaindre
attained
attainer
attainers
attainest
attaineth
attaining (current term)
attainment
attainment area
attainments
attainor
attains
attaint
attainted
attainting
attaints
attainture
attaintures
attakolite
attal
attame

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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