acquirement
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /əˈkwaɪə(ɹ)mənt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]acquirement (countable and uncountable, plural acquirements)
- (now rare, chiefly in the plural) Something that has been acquired; an attainment or accomplishment. [from 17th c.]
- 1630, John Hayward, The Life, and Riagne of King Edward the Sixt[1], London: John Partridge, page 4:
- […] his acquirements by industrie were […] enriched and enlarged by many excellent endowments of nature.
- 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXVII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume I, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC, page 177:
- If she can think, that the part she has had in your education, and your own admirable talents and acquirements, are to be thrown away upon such a worthless creature as Solmes, I could heartily quarrel with her.
- 1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 305:
- […] there was a degree of deference in his deportment toward that young gentleman which seemed to indicate that he felt himself conscious of a slight inferiority in point of genius and professional acquirements.
- The act or fact of acquiring something; acquisition. [from 17th c.]
- 1712 June 30 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “THURSDAY, June 19, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 409; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume V, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
- […] rules for the acquirement of a taste […]
- 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein:
- One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought […].
- 1952, Annual report of the Chief of Engineers U.S. Army:
- At best, a considerable time elapses between authorization and land acquirement, during which land values may vary impredictably.
Synonyms
[edit]- (that which is acquired): acquisition
- (act of acquiring): acquisition, procuration, procurement, obtainment