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Accomplishment   /əkˈɑmplɪʃmənt/   Listen
noun
Accomplishment  n.  
1.
The act of accomplishing; entire performance; completion; fulfillment; as, the accomplishment of an enterprise, of a prophecy, etc.
2.
That which completes, perfects, or equips thoroughly; acquirement; attainment; that which constitutes excellence of mind, or elegance of manners, acquired by education or training. "My new accomplishment of dancing." "Accomplishments befitting a station." "Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, And wisdom falls before exterior grace."





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"Accomplishment" Quotes from Famous Books



... dreams could know accomplishment, he must have means. To be of use to anybody at all he must make himself effective. The process must be reversed, for no man could fight without weapons, and weapons were only to be had as the result of steady, ...
— A Prisoner in Fairyland • Algernon Blackwood
... Poetry's concern is with the universal: and what makes the Celts (however much you may dislike them) the most considerable force in English poetry at this moment is that they occupy themselves with that universal truth, which, before any technical accomplishment, is ...
— From a Cornish Window - A New Edition • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... that there is not a truthful Indian in Labrador. In fact it is considered an accomplishment to lie cheerfully and well. They are like the Crees of James Bay and the westward in this respect, and will lie most plausibly when it will serve their purpose better than truth, and I verily believe these Indians sometimes lie for the mere pleasure ...
— The Long Labrador Trail • Dillon Wallace
... justice, and charity contented in this, and happy in after life—is daily gaining more ground as the only religion complying with the demands of reason and our destination on earth. And Israel does not falter in the accomplishment of its holy mission,—to be the redeeming Messiah to all mankind, to become a nation of priests, teaching and ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 • Various
... exacting any satisfaction, on the hypothesis that He had chosen to restore mankind to His favor and at the same time to require full satisfaction as a condition of pardon and deliverance, there was only one way for the accomplishment of this reconciliation and that was by the atonement of One who was both God and Man. For sin, inasmuch as it is an act against the Infinite Being, requires a satisfaction of infinite value. Man being finite ...
— Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" • John T. Slattery


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