entailment
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Hence, we shall content ourselves with calling attention to a few facts of great importance respecting the conditions which imperatively forbid marriage, and which cannot be violated without the certain entailment of great suffering.
From Plain Facts for Old and Young by John Harvey Kellogg
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 Francis Hackett
Four States declared in their constitutions against the entailment of estates, and primogeniture was abolished in aristocratic Virginia.
From The Fathers of the Constitution; a chronicle of the establishment of the Union by Max Farrand
But there are patent reasons within the sphere of philosophy itself for entailment of activity and taking of stock.
From The Approach to Philosophy by Ralph Barton Perry
Increase of faculty by exercise, hereditary entailment of gains, and consequent progressive adaptation, were prominent ideas in this treatise.
From Herbert Spencer by J. Arthur (John Arthur) Thomson
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