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entail

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"Involve as a result"

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6 lettersPronunciation /ɛnˈteɪl/Part of speech noun, verbSorted aeilntStarts with EEnds with L1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the act of entailing property; the creation of a fee tail from a fee simple

Word origin

From Middle English entaillen, from Old French entaillier, entailler (“to notch”, literally “to cut in”); from prefix en- + tailler (“to cut”), from Late Latin taliare, from Latin talea. Compare late Latin feudum talliatum (“a fee entailed, i.e., curtailed or limited”).

Used in a sentence

  • This activity will entail careful attention to detail.
  • God's immateriality entails the divine attribute of incorporeality, that God is neither a body nor embodied.
  • It also entailed well-documented disadvantages: a population increase in an unsustaining economy, a battered self-identity, a plague of substance abuse.

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