Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who holds property for a life or lives.
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Examples
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I believe in number, and I don’t recollect that there was one of them whom I should have looked upon as a desirable life-holder of any property to which I might be entitled in expectancy.
Eothen 2003
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I don’t recollect that there was one of them whom I should have looked upon as a desirable life-holder of any property to which I might be entitled in expectancy.
Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East Alexander William Kinglake 1850
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