entailment

entailment is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

Definitions

  1. 1.The condition of being entailed.
  2. 2.A thing entailed. Brutality as an hereditary entailment becomes an ever weakening force. R. L. Dugdale.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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