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Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality of being attainable.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality of being attainable; attainability.

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  • noun The state or quality of being attainable.

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  • noun the state of being achievable

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Examples

  • 'It may not be at present a question of much interest to the British public, because no such large decisive experiment as was proposed has yet been tried as to the value and attainableness of the object; but its magnitude and importance are incontestable, the whole extent of peat soil in Ireland exceeding, as it is confidently pronounced,

    Richard Lovell Edgeworth Ed 1896

  • But I speak with practical accuracy when I give that title to such views as on the whole affirm the attainableness here below of a spiritual condition in which man needs no longer confess himself as now a sinner, and in which his attention tends to be drawn more to his perfectness than to his imperfections of condition.

    Philippian Studies Lessons in Faith and Love from St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians 1880

  • None of this bright Gothic art was ever done but either by faith in the attainableness of felicity in heaven, or under conditions of real order and delicate loveliness on the earth.

    Lectures on Landscape Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871 John Ruskin 1859

  • 'It may not be at present a question of much interest to the British public, because no such large decisive experiment as was proposed has yet been tried as to the value and attainableness of the object; but its magnitude and importance are incontestable, the whole extent of peat soil in Ireland exceeding, as it is confidently pronounced,

    Richard Lovell Edgeworth A Selection From His Memoir Richard Lovell Edgeworth 1780

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