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Definition:(law) An estate settled on a wife, which she is to enjoy after her husband's death, for her own life at least, in satisfaction of dower.text from Wiktionary, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
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Mrs. Jennings was a widow with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she had now therefore nothing to do but to marry all the rest of the world.
Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility (1902)
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She enjoys a jointure of five hundred pounds a-year, and makes shift to spend three times that sum.
Tobias Smollett. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)
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Slender: Ay, that I will, come cut and long-tail, under the degree of a squire.
Shallow: He will make you a hundred and fifty pounds jointure.
Anne: Good Master Shallow, let him woo for himself.
William Shakespeare. The Merry Wives of Windsor
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and to reflect upon so many agreeable females with rich jointures, a prey to the vilest bonzes, who hide their flambeau under a bushel in an uncongenial cloister or lose their womanly bloom in the embraces of some unaccountable muskin
James Joyce. Ulysses
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Courtship, love, presents, jointures, settlements have no place in their thoughts, or terms whereby to express them in their language.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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