Unattaining

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    That does not lead to attainment

    "There she clutches at illusions, and she seeks the phantom goal With the unattaining passion that consumes the unsleeping soul: And calamity enfolds her, like the shadow of a ban, And the niggardness of Nature makes the misery of man;"

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"There she clutches at illusions, and she seeks the phantom goal With the unattaining passion that consumes the unsleeping soul: And calamity enfolds her, like the shadow of a ban, And the niggardness of Nature makes the misery of man;"

Etymology

From un- + attaining.

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