Entails
[in'teilz]
Examples
- But we have already seen how it entails extinction; and how largely extinction has acted in the world's history, geology plainly declares. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The imagination is more vivid: the horror of capitalism is not alone in the poverty and suffering it entails, but in its ruthless denial of life to millions of men. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The miseries it entails are genuine miseries--not points of etiquette or infringements of convention. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Entails are the natural consequences of the law of primogeniture. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- When great landed estates were a sort of principalities, entails might not be unreasonable. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Checker: Max