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Entailment

noun
1.
Something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied).  Synonyms: deduction, implication.





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"Entailment" Quotes from Famous Books



... consideration of public services." Property qualifications and other restrictions on officeholding and the exercise of the suffrage were lessened. Four States declared in their constitutions against the entailment of estates, and primogeniture was abolished in aristocratic Virginia. There was a fairly complete abolition of all vestiges of feudal tenure in the holding of land, so that it may be said that in this period full ownership of property was established. The further separation ...
— The Fathers of the Constitution - Volume 13 in The Chronicles Of America Series • Max Farrand
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... error of 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 back to his ...
— In the Days of Poor Richard • Irving Bacheller
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Words linked to "Entailment" :   entail, inference, illation, deduction


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