Crossword-Solution: JOINTURE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Jointure | n. | A joining; a joint. |
| Jointure | n. | An estate settled on a wife, which she is to enjoy after husband's decease, for her own life at least, in satisfaction of dower. |
| Jointure | v. t. | To settle a jointure upon. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “JOINTURE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Act of uniting | 1 answer |
| PROVISION made for widow | 1 answer |
| Widow's portion | 3 answers |
| dower | 23 answers |
| Timber. | 37 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with JOINTURE (5)
She must have a great deal to leave.” “Nothing at all, I should rather suppose; for she has only her jointure, which will descend to her children.” “But it is not to be imagined that she lives up to her income.
The family are not wealthy—they’re poor, indeed—and she lives upon a small jointure; but if you come to blood, Sir!” The Major gave a flourish with his stick and walked on again, in despair of being able to say what you came to, if you came to that.
She was, at the time when she met with her misfortune, in the service of Mrs Dalrymple, a colonel's widow, that came out of the army and settled among us on her jointure.
Kate, who was really a surprising lassie for her years, was taken off her mother’s hands by the old Lady Macadam, that lived in her jointure house, which is now the Cross Keys Inn.
And now forthwith shall articles be drawn Touching the jointure that your king must make, Which with her dowry shall be counterpoised.
Quotes with JOINTURE (1)
We should pray that God would enrich his ordinance with his presence; that he would make the sacrament effectual to all those holy ends and purposes for which he hath appointed it; that it may be the feast of our graces, and the funeral of our corruptions; that it may not only be a sign to represent, but an instrument to convey, Christ to us, and a seal to assure us of our heavenly jointure [union].
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1974).