JOINTURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jointure mean? 

• JOINTURE (noun)
  The noun JOINTURE has 2 senses:

1. (law) an estate secured to a prospective wife as a marriage settlement in lieu of a dower

2. the act of making or becoming a single unit

  Familiarity information: JOINTURE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JOINTURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(law) an estate secured to a prospective wife as a marriage settlement in lieu of a dower

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

jointure; legal jointure

Hypernyms ("jointure" is a kind of...):

estate (everything you own; all of your assets (whether real property or personal property) and liabilities)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of making or becoming a single unit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

conjugation; jointure; unification; union; uniting

Context example:

he looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays

Hypernyms ("jointure" is a kind of...):

combination; combining; compounding (the act of combining things to form a new whole)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "jointure"):

coalescence; coalescency; coalition; concretion; conglutination (the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts)

reunification; reunion (the act of coming together again)

tribalisation; tribalization (the act of making tribal; unification on a tribal basis)

umbrella (having the function of uniting a group of similar things)

Derivation:

join (be or become joined or united or linked)

 Context examples 

Mrs. Jennings was a widow with an ample jointure.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Well, the jointure may comfort him; and perhaps, between friends, he began to tremble for his credit and his lungs in the Baron, and was not sorry to withdraw; and to make you amends, Yates, I think we must raise a little theatre at Mansfield, and ask you to be our manager.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Nothing at all, I should rather suppose; for she has only her jointure, which will descend to her children.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)