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attainer

American  
[uh-tayn-er] / əˈteɪn ər /

noun

  • attainers
    plural
  1. a person who attains, achieves, or reaches something.


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Here is a bill of attainer against nine millions of people at once.

From The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan by Dixon, Thomas

May Agni, the presenter of oblations, the attainer of knowledge; he who is true, renowned, and divine, come hither with the gods!

From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

The attainer of that peak may recover his breath and enjoy a complete panorama of his present achievement and may amuse himself moreover by re-climbing the mountain in retrospect.

From The Joyful Heart by Schauffler, Robert Haven

Among the art poems, Fra Lippo Lippi is the apostle of beauty in realism, Andrea del Sarto the attainer of perfection in form.

From Browning and His Century by Clarke, Helen Archibald

Let him say: 'The deity called Speech is the attainer, may it attain this for me from him who possesses and can bestow what I wish for.

From Sacred Books of the East by Various

"To suggest lower attainers would be better off without the additional help provided by teaching assistants is wrong - but of course it's up to schools themselves to decide how to deploy them."

From BBC Mar. 30, 2010

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