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English
Etymology
From acquire + -ment.
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Noun
acquirement (countable and uncountable, plural acquirements)
- (now rare, chiefly in the plural) Something that has been acquired; an attainment or accomplishment.
1630, John Hayward, The Life, and Riagne of King Edward the Sixt, 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 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. , volume (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.
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.
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