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Entailment   Listen
noun
Entailment  n.  
1.
The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent.
2.
The condition of being entailed.
3.
A thing entailed. "Brutality as an hereditary entailment becomes an ever weakening force."





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"Entailment" Quotes from Famous Books



... Europe is entailment—entailed estates, entailed pride, entailed luxury, entailed conceit. A boy who inherits honor will rarely honor himself. I like the method of China, where honor ascends, but does not descend. It goes ...
— In the Days of Poor Richard • Irving Bacheller


Words linked to "Entailment" :   entail, implication


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