acquired character
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of acquired character
First recorded in 1875–80
Example Sentences
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The stadium isn’t old enough to feel outdated but is old enough to have acquired character.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2024
Deneuve, the darling of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 32 years ago, has aged gracefully; her face has acquired character, a kind of pinched authority.
From Time Magazine Archive
Such a wide variation from the mean thus caused is called an acquired character; it is usually impressed on the organism after the germinal trait has reached a full, typical development.
From Applied Eugenics by Popenoe, Paul
The undoubted inheritance of disease is hardly a difficulty, because the predisposition to disease is a congenital, not an acquired character, and as such would be the subject of inheritance.
From Darwinism (1889) by Wallace, Alfred Russel
Such an acquired character introduces unity into the subject of investigation, as completely as does an original nature, and therefore satisfies all the wants of the mind.
From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by Clarke, James Freeman
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