Attain vs Procure - What's the difference?
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To accomplish; to achieve.
To get at the knowledge of; to ascertain.
* Fuller
To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at.
* Milton
* Bible, Psalms cxxxix. 6
To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc.; to reach.
* Bible, Acts xxvii. 12
* Sir Walter Scott
* Cowper
* J. R. Green
To reach in excellence or degree; to equal.
(obsolete) To overtake.
To acquire or obtain.
* Milton
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To obtain a person as a prostitute for somebody else.
(criminal law) To induce or persuade someone to do something.
(obsolete) To contrive; to bring about; to effect; to cause.
* Robynson (More's Utopia)
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To solicit; to entreat.
* Spenser
(obsolete) To cause to come; to bring; to attract.
* Shakespeare
Procure is a synonym of attain.
In transitive terms the difference between attain and procure
is that attain is to reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at while procure is to obtain a person as a prostitute for somebody else.In obsolete terms the difference between attain and procure
is that attain is to overtake while procure is to cause to come; to bring; to attract.attain
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Verb
(en verb)- To attain such a high level of proficiency requires hours of practice each day.
- not well attaining his meaning
- Canaan he now attains .
- Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I can not attain unto it.
- if by any means they might attain to Phenice
- Nor nearer might the dogs attain .
- to see your trees attain to the dignity of timber
- Few boroughs had as yet attained to power such as this.
- (Francis Bacon)
procure
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(procur)- if we procure not to ourselves more woe
- Later there would also be need for seeds and artificial manures, besides various tools and, finally, the machinery for the windmill. How these were to be procured , no one was able to imagine.
- By all means possible they procure to have gold and silver among them in reproach.
- Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall.
- The famous Briton prince and faery knight, / Of the fair Alma greatly were procured / To make there longer sojourn and abode.
- What unaccustomed cause procures her hither?