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jointure

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈdʒɔɪn.t͡ʃə(ɹ)/Part of speech nounSorted eijnortuStarts with JEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. the act of making or becoming a single unit

Word origin

Inherited from Middle English joynture, from Old French jointure, from Latin iūnctūra. Doublet of juncture.

Used in a sentence

  • Then, Warwick, thus: our sister shall be Edward’s; / And now forthwith shall articles be drawn / Touching the jointure that your king must make, / Which with her dowry shall be counterpoised.
  • Beasts do no jointures lose / Though they new lovers choose; / But we are made worse than those.
  • You tell me you are secure of having either the Aunt or the Niece, and that you might have married the Aunt before this, whose Jointure you say is immense, but that you prefer the Niece on account of her ready Money.

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