Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A woman who has a jointure; a dowager.
- noun A woman who joins with another person in rule or possession.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Law) A woman who has a jointure.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
widow who has ajointure
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Examples
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Gertrude is described as the 'imperial jointress' of the State, and the
Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth 1893
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If the tenant bad paid the rent on the day, the payment had been good, though the lessor had died before sun - set; but the executors to account for this to the jointress. ibid.
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Bot if the tenant had paid the rent on the day, the payment had been good, though the lessor had died before son-set, but his executors to account for - this rent to the jointress.
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‘fornicatress’, ‘cloistress’, ‘jointress’ (all in Shakespeare);
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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