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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

... brains for the life she's been shunted into. She might be damming up a big river with a finely constructed concrete dam, and what she is giving all her strength to is trying to hold back a muddy little trickle with her bare hands. The achievement of her life is to give on a two-thousand-a-year income the appearance of having five thousand like your father. She does it; she's a remarkably forceful woman, but it frets her. She ought to be in better business, and she knows it, though she won't ...

— Quit Your Worrying! • George Wharton James

... of the day? I can only say for myself that the deepening of the human consciousnesses due to the effort to close with the mystery of evil and death, and to extort therefrom a message of hope and comfort, seems to me to have been worth the achievement at almost any cost of crimes and follies perpetrated by the way. I do not think that progress in religion is progress towards its ultimate abolition. Rather, religion, if regarded in the light of its earlier history, must be treated as the parent source of ...

— Progress and History • Various

... my gratitude to the voice of the people for this achievement; for often in the finest life are found strange blemishes and inconsistencies which pain me when I see them. If a man seems to me a perfect model of a grand and noble character, and if some one comes and tells me of a mean trait which disfigures ...

— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet

... time, and that of other people, as if he were in the habit of going on high 'Change every day. The Artist whom I wish to present to the notice of the Meeting is one to whom the perfect enjoyment of the five senses is essential to every achievement of his life. He can gain no wealth nor fame by buying something which he never touched, and selling it to another who would also never touch or see it, but was compelled to strike out for himself every spark of fire which lighted, ...

— Speeches: Literary and Social • Charles Dickens

... exasperated Wilder made irruption, and summarily terminated the proceedings by knocking down the host. The disgrace was too much for the poor lad. He forthwith sold his books and belongings, and ran away, vaguely bound for America. But after considerable privations, including the achievement of a destitution so complete that a handful of grey peas, given him by a girl at a wake, seemed a banquet, he turned his steps homeward, and, a reconciliation having been patched up with his tutor, he was received once more at college. In February, ...

— The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith • Oliver Goldsmith

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