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Definition of "acquirements" []

  • Plural form of acquirement. (noun)

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Use "acquirements" in a sentence
  • "Men of modern education suppose that women are only worthy of receiving billet doux, because the extent of their own literary acquirements is that of writing them."
  • "They have been to school, and had their minds improved in all modern ways, -- have calculated eclipses, and read Virgil, Schiller, and La Fontaine, and understand all about the geological strata, and the different systems of metaphysics, -- so that a person reading the list of their acquirements might be a little appalled at the prospect of entering into conversation with them."
  • "Gradually, over the mind of the beautiful and gifted Hypatia, there came stealing a doubt concerning the value of her own acquirements, since these were "acquirements," and not evolutions or convictions gathered from experience, but things implanted upon her plastic mind by her father."