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- noun Plural form of
purtenance .
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Examples
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Here her little patrimony meant independence, safety from perfunctory and uncongenial contacts at home, and more positively all those purtenances of the gentlewoman that she required.
The Collectors Frank Jewett Mather
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Your letter found me at my Mother's house, at Ham, close to Richmond; a really lovely place, and neighbourhood, though I say it who am all prejudiced against London and 'all the purtenances thereof.'
Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 Edward FitzGerald 1846
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I know this owd witch who's sold hersel 'to -- to -- Blackface I'm afeard, is th' owner o 'many a good rood o' land hereabout, an 't'owd Ha' too, wi 'its' purtenances.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) John Roby 1821
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To John Manners, one of his younger sons, his manor of Thornton in Craven, with the ap - purtenances in Thornton in Craven, Earesby, and Kelbroke, in the county of York.
Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812
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III. 'it is set forth, that Robert de Harley, cousin and heir of Malcolm de Harley, held the moiety of the manor of Ashdon, with the ap - purtenances, of the heir of Robert de Mortimer, late Earl of March, the King's ward, by the service of a moiety of one Knight's fee.
Peerage of England, genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812
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BITT, OR HoRSE-BiTT, in general, fig - nifies the whole m. achine of all the iron ap - purtenances of a bridle; as the bitt-mouth, the branches, the curb, the levil-holes, the tranchelil, and crofs the chains; but it often fignifies only the bitt-mouth in particular.
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When the department shall acquire control of any of the reservoirs and adjacent lands and the ap - purtenances thereto described in section one, such reservoirs and lands shall be held by it in perpetuity and used for
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Chap. 146. 103 by said persons named in section one of this act, or any of them, and to structures, dams, conduits and other ap - purtenances to complete and eftective water works, now owned and laid by them or either of them.
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(/) To acquire sites abutting on the turnpike and to con - struct or contract for the construction of buildings and ap - purtenances for gasoline stations, restaurants and other serv - ices and to lease the same for the above purposes in such manner and under such terms as it may determine;
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"May he be damned in his mouth, in his breast, in his heart, and purtenances, down to the very stomach!
Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal Sarah J. Richardson
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