entailment
Example Sentences
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Ownership is not complicated in any way with magisterial duties or prestige or entailment, as in England.
From Rural Health and Welfare by Fairchild, George Thompson
An Act of entailment can, it is true, be founded, but it is rarely permitted, being looked upon with disfavour for reasons of political economy.
From Round About the Carpathians by Crosse, Andrew F.
But here, besides the discrepancies in the entailment of services, there are enormous discrepancies in sentiment to start with, and policies still to be accepted and cemented, and European prejudices to be suppressed or reconciled.
From The Invisible Censor by Hackett, Francis
Increase of faculty by exercise, hereditary entailment of gains, and consequent progressive adaptation, were prominent ideas in this treatise.
From Herbert Spencer by Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur)
The emancipated Negro struggles up to-day against many obstacles, the entailment of a brutal slavery.
From The Negro Problem by Fortune, Timothy Thomas
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
