entailment
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Hence, we shall content ourselves with calling attention to a few facts of great importance respecting the conditions which imperatively forbid marriage, and which cannot be violated without the certain entailment of great suffering.
From Plain Facts for Old and Young by John Harvey Kellogg
But here, besides the discrepancies in the entailment of services, there are enormous discrepancies in sentiment to start with, and policies still to be accepted and cemented, and European prejudices to be suppressed or reconciled.
From The Invisible Censor by Francis Hackett
Increase of faculty by exercise, hereditary entailment of gains, and consequent progressive adaptation, were prominent ideas in this treatise.
From Herbert Spencer by J. Arthur (John Arthur) Thomson
The emancipated Negro struggles up to-day against many obstacles, the entailment of a brutal slavery.
From The Negro Problem by Timothy Thomas Fortune
Ownership is not complicated in any way with magisterial duties or prestige or entailment, as in England.
From Rural Health and Welfare by George Thompson Fairchild
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