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noun

Achievement n.

The act of achieving or performing; an obtaining by exertion; successful performance; accomplishment; as, the achievement of his object.

A great or heroic deed; something accomplished by valor, boldness, or praiseworthy exertion; a feat. "(The exploits) of the ancient saints... do far surpass the most famous achievements of pagan heroes." "The highest achievements of the human intellect."

(Her.) An escutcheon or ensign armorial; now generally applied to the funeral shield commonly called hatchment.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Achievement" Quotes from Famous Books

... soul. The measure of our praying is the measure of our growth. No man has reached his full possibilities of achievement who has not completed the circuit of his possible prayers. Power ...

— The Warriors • Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown

... Lord Morley's crowning achievement in literature is his biography of Mr. Gladstone. How easy it would have been to smother Mr. Gladstone in stale politics!—and how stale politics may become in that intermediate stage before they pass ...

— A Writer's Recollections (In Two Volumes), Volume II • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... has the gratification of amazing half the school with the news of Dr Grinder's approaching marriage and the consequent extra holidays, and of seeing the enthusiastic astonishment of others to whom he retails the latest achievement of ...

— Parkhurst Boys - And Other Stories of School Life • Talbot Baines Reed

... diffusion of prosperity. Its record in the civil war was less brilliant, perhaps, than that of some other localities, but it was fully up to the general Ohio level, which was the high-water mark of the national achievement in the greatest war of the greatest people under the sun. It, was Kenton's pride and glory that he had been a part of the finest army known in history. He believed that the men who made history ought to write it, and in his first Commemoration-Day oration he urged his companions ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... Grange,' of 'Uncle Remus and his Folk-lore Stories,' and 'Innocents Abroad,' clever as they are, must make hay while the sun shines. Twenty years hence, unless they chance to enshrine their wit in some higher literary achievement, their unknown successors will be the privileged comedians of the republic. Humour alone never gives its masters a place in literature; it must coexist with literary qualities, and must usually be joined with such pathos as one ...

— Mark Twain • Archibald Henderson

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