All 10 Uses of
entails
in
To Kill a Mockingbird
Uses with a meaning too rare to warrant foucs:
- After a dreary conversation in our livingroom one night about his entailment, before Mr. Cunningham left he said, "Mr. Finch, I don't know when I'll ever be able to pay you."
p. 22.9entailment = limitation on use of property based on conditions of inheritance
- When I asked Jem what entailment was, and Jem described it as a condition of having your tail in a crack, I asked Atticus if Mr. Cunningham would ever pay us.
p. 23.0
- Entailment was only a part of Mr. Cunningham's vexations.
p. 23.6
- The acres not entailed were mortgaged to the hilt, and the little cash he made went to interest.
p. 23.6entailed = tied up due to conditions of inheritance
- Miss Scout, if you give me your attention I'll tell you what entailment is.
p. 23.9entailment = limitation on use of property based on conditions of inheritance
- How's your entailment gettin' along?
p. 174.0
- Mr. Cunningham displayed no interest in his son, so I tackled his entailment once more in a last-ditch effort to make him feel at home.
p. 174.7
- "Entailments are bad," I was advising him, when I slowly awoke to the fact that I was addressing the entire aggregation.
p. 174.8 *entailments = limitations on use of property based on conditions of inheritance
- "Well, Atticus, I was just sayin' to Mr. Cunningham that entailments are bad an' all that, but you said not to worry, it takes a long time sometimes… that you all'd ride it out together…"
p. 175.0
- Entailments seemed all right enough for livingroom talk.
p. 175.1entailments = the subject of limitations on use of property based on conditions of inheritance
Definitions:
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(1)
(entails) involves or requires
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Entail also had a specialized meaning in law related to limiting the inheritance of property or order of succession. That sense is often seen in classic literature.