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acquirement

noun
/əˈkwaɪə(ɹ)mənt/

Etymology

From acquire + -ment.

  1. derived from acquirō
  2. derived from aquerre
  3. inherited from acqueren
  4. suffixed as acquirement — “acquire + ment”

Definitions

  1. Something that has been acquired

    Something that has been acquired; an attainment or accomplishment.

    • […] his acquirements by industrie were […] enriched and enlarged by many excellent endowments of nature.
    • 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.
    • […] 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.

  2. The act or fact of acquiring something

    The act or fact of acquiring something; acquisition.

    • […] rules for the acquirement of a taste […]
    • One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought […].
    • At best, a considerable time elapses between authorization and land acquirement, during which land values may vary impredictably.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at acquirement. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at acquirement. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at acquirement

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA