entailment

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

From The New Yorker

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

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From Forbes

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

From Project Gutenberg

Hence the practice of entailments in the feudal system.

From Project Gutenberg