jointure

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  1. noun Law An arrangement by which a man sets aside property to be used for the support of his wife after his death.
  2. noun Law The property so designated.
  3. noun The act of joining or the state of being joined.

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  • She left L800 a year jointure, a son to inherit the whole estate. —  The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Aug/Sep 1666
  • 'T is like a discrowned queen, for her jointure is small, and she is now no more consequence to his party, so his death has struck away her worldly glory at a blow. —  The Ladies
  • But paying the Rani's jointure--that was a bitter pill, I grant you. —  The Path to Honour
  • Nisbet is to visit Agpur City and settle the preliminaries of the frontier business and the affair of the Rani Gulab Kur's jointure, and will probably remain there as Resident. —  The Path to Honour
  • The Princess of Wales had as yet received no jointure, and she and the prince were thus kept, as Frederick's friends insisted, in the condition of mere pensioners and dependants upon the royal bounty. —  A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4)
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  1. Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, from Latin iūnctūra, joint; see juncture.

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  1. Early modern English also jointer; from Middle English joynture, rarely joynter, from Old French jointure, later joincture, French jointure = Provencal junhtura, junctura = Spanish Portuguese juntura = Italian giuntura, from Latin junctura, a joining, from jungere, past participle junctus, join: see join. Doublet juncture, q. v.
  2. from jointure, n.
 

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