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attain englanniksi
To gain (an object or desired result).
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(RQ:Shakespeare Richard 2)
(RQ:Thackeray Vanity Fair) he will stick at no falsehood, or hesitate at no crime, to attain his ends.
(RQ:Gilbert and Sullivan Mikado) that’s the highest rank a citizen can attain!
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(quote-journal)
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To reach or to, by progression or motion; to arrive at (a place, time, state, etc.).
(RQ:Shakespeare Julius Caesar) my bones would rest, / That have but labour’d to attain this hour.
(RQ:Milton Paradise Lost)
(RQ:Wollstonecraft Vindication Women)
(RQ:Mary Shelley Frankenstein) blow us speedily towards those shores which I so ardently desire to attain
To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc.
(RQ:King James Version)
1782, (w), letter to Joseph Hill dated 11(nbs)November, 1782, in ''Private Correspondence of William Cowper,'' London: Henry Colburn, 1824, Volume(nbs)1, p.(nbs)222,https://archive.org/details/privatecorrespon01cowpuoft/page/222
- You may not, perhaps, live to see your trees attain to the dignity of timber—I, nevertheless, approve of your planting, and the disinterested spirit that prompts you to it.
(RQ:Scott Lady of the Lake)
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To at the knowledge of.
(RQ:Fuller Church History) Master ''(w),'' sometimes ''acknowledgeth,'' sometimes ''denieth'' him for an ''English Earle''. Not that I accuse him as inconstant to himself, but suspect my self not well attaining his meaning therein.
To reach in excellence or degree.
(RQ:Bacon Essayes)
To reach a person after being behind them.
(RQ:Bacon Henry 7) the enemie retired, pursued with all celeritie into ''Scotland;'' hoping to haue ouer-taken the ''Scottish'' King, and to haue giuen him Battaile; But not attaining him in time, sate downe before the ''Castle'' of ''Aton'' (..) which in a small time hee tooke.