Meaning of jointure | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A joining; a joint.
   obsolete
2. An estate settled on a wife, which she is to enjoy after her husband's death, for her own life at least, in satisfaction of dower.

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Examples

“Then, Warwick, thus: our sister shall be Edward’s; / And now forthwith shall articles be drawn / Touching the jointure that your king must make⟳, / Which with her dowry shall be counterpoised.”

“Beasts do no jointures lose⟳ / Though they new lovers choose⟳; / But we are made worse than those.”

“You tell⟳ me you are secure of having either the Aunt or the Niece, and that you might have⟳ married the Aunt before this, whose Jointure you say⟳ is immense, but that you prefer⟳ the Niece on account of her ready Money.”

“The Baronet owed his son a sum of money out of the jointure of his mother, which he did not find⟳ it convenient to pay⟳; indeed he had an almost invincible repugnance to paying anybody, and could only be brought by force⟳ to discharge his debts.”

“Freddy had no money and no occupation. His mother's jointure, a last⟳ relic of the opulence of Largelady Park⟳, had enabled her to struggle⟳ along in Earlscourt with an air of gentility, but not to procure any serious secondary education for her children, much less give⟳ the boy a profession.”

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