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entailment

noun as in involving by necessity

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Lai, though, is interested in the strategic entailments of such usage.

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They loved using the word "valet" with a hard "t" and learning the intricacies of an entailment.

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And, it was just prior to this that England enacted statutes that enabled a type of property ownership called an “entailment,” which is often but not always related to noble titles.

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Increase of faculty by exercise, hereditary entailment of gains, and consequent progressive adaptation, were prominent ideas in this treatise.

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Hence the practice of entailments in the feudal system.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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