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Meaning of proprietarial | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1
/pɹəˌpɹaɪ.əˈtɛəɹi.əl/

Definitions

  1. Pertaining to proprietarians or proprietarianism (in colonial North America).
  2. Proprietary or proprietorial; pertaining to property or ownership (of property).
    uncommon

Examples

“In Charleston, the aftermath of the Yamassee War was one of reorganization, regulation and a massive political shift as the colony moved from proprietarial control to become a royal colony.”
“They extended the proprietarial and contractual provisions of emerging commercial law to seize local peasant debtors as slaves, [...] ‘Proprietarial’ interests in both outsiders and local debtors, commercialized for purposes of negotiability, thus appeared several millennia ago in Mesopotamia. However, to construe these atypical transactions [...] as defining of ‘slavery’, would then indulge the selective fallacy of origins — in relation to modern thoroughly proprietarial slavery [...]”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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