Definition of "jointured" []

• Bequeathed to a wife through jointure. (adjective)
• Supplied with an estate through jointure. (adjective)

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• "It is however whispered about, that she has dearly earned this affectionate treatment, by giving up her right in the jointured estate, and thereby rendering herself entirely pennyless, except his lordship has gratitude sufficient to induce him to determine upon laying by a yearly sum for her future support."
• "Danvers would not be very sorry to hear of the death of this charming creature, as he might then dispose of the little jointured estate in Derbyshire."
• "He has lately lost much more than he can pay, at the gaming table, and this savage wretch, who thought to have drawn you into his den, was not only to have paid the debt of honor, as (by a total inversion of words) it is generally called, but likewise to have given a release of the jointured estate in"