Crossword-Solution: ENTAILMENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Entailment | n. | The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent. |
| Entailment | n. | The condition of being entailed. |
| Entailment | n. | A thing entailed. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “ENTAILMENT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Inheritance? | 27 answers |
| Implication | 28 answers |
| Estate | 72 answers |
| Necessity | 74 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETRA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ENTAILMENT (5)
Four States declared in their constitutions against the entailment of estates, and primogeniture was abolished in aristocratic Virginia.
For two years and a half he served in the Virginia Assembly and brought about the repeal of the law of entailment, the abolition of primogeniture, the recognition of freedom of conscience, and the encouragement of education.
Both Buddhism and Hinduism are worse than other pessimistic systems in their fearful law of entailment through countless transmigrations, each of which must be a struggle.
The emancipated Negro struggles up to-day against many obstacles, the entailment of a brutal slavery.
They are more likely to praise it.' "On our way back to Paris the Doctor said to me: "'The great error of Europe is entailment--entailed estates, entailed pride, entailed luxury, entailed conceit.
Quotes with ENTAILMENT (1)
You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one. The family economy evades calculation in the gross planetary product. It's the only deal I know where, when you give more than you get, you aren't bankrupted - but rather, vastly enriched.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1974).