ENTAILMENTS

Noun

entailments

plural of entailment

Anagrams

• sentimental

Source: Wiktionary


ENTAILMENT

En*tail"ment, 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. R. L. Dugdale.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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