Acquirement
[ə'kwaɪəm(ə)nt] or [ə'kwaɪrmənt]
Definition
(n.) The act of acquiring, or that which is acquired; attainment.
Typed by Konrad
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Acquiring, gathering, gaining, mastery.[2]. Accomplishment, attainment, acquisition, stock of knowledge, mental resources.
Checked by Cecily
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Knowledge, at, entertainment, accomplishment, learning, erudition, acquisition
ANT:Intuition, inspiration, genius
Typist: Yvette
Examples
- All her eagerness for acquirement lay within that full current of sympathetic motive in which her ideas and impulses were habitually swept along. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- For a time this new acquirement seems to have overshadowed their earlier achievement of drawing, and possibly it checked the use of gesture. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The acquirement of personal experience from surrounding objects constitutes that of things. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He was much surprised and pleased with this new acquirement which had been so suddenly thrust upon him, but he had no time for thinking much upon it. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The author (1855) has also treated Psychology on the principle of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- By all which acquirements, I should be a living treasure of knowledge and wisdom, and certainly become the oracle of the nation. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- He was a French gentleman; a scientific gentleman; a man of great acquirements--a Doctor. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- One of these was the son of a country-curate; he was a generous, frank-hearted youth, with an ardent love of knowledge, and no mean acquirements. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I could have exulted to burst on his vision, confront and confound his lunettes, one blaze of acquirements. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I really had no objection to going to West Point, except that I had a very exalted idea of the acquirements necessary to get through. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Her beauty and acquirements had held but a second place. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
Typist: Oliver