Entailment
Pronunciation : En*tail"ment
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : 1. The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent.
2. The condition of being entailed.
3. A thing entailed. Brutality as an hereditary entailment becomes an ever weakening force. R. L. Dugdale.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
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