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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."