Definitions for jointure

jointure join·ture

Spelling: [join-cher]
IPA: /ˈdʒɔɪn tʃər/

Jointure is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 247 anagrams from letters in jointure (eijnortu).

Definitions for jointure

noun

  1. an estate or property settled on a woman in consideration of marriage, to be owned by her after her husband's death.
  2. Obsolete. a joint tenancy limited in favor of a husband and wife.

Origin of jointure

1325-75; Middle English Old French Latin junctūra, equivalent to junct- (see joint) + -ūra -ure

Examples for jointure

So skillfully is this done that it is impossible to detect the lines of jointure.

The likelihood is, that your mother's jointure will be the utmost we can save from the wreck.

"You will do me the favour, mother, to accept of this addition to your jointure," said he.

I began to be of the same opinion;—but then there was the jointure.

To Katharine, his wife, if she claimed no jointure, an annuity of £13 6s.

She was an Irish peer's widow, with a jointure of L2000 a year.

And I am confident he will make my jointure every thing, and more than every thing, I could desire.

The Castle of Montargis is my jointure; at Orleans there is no house.

As to any provision for her, it must have taken the form of a settlement, a jointure, or a dower.

"But if my Lady Rackrent dies, there's an end of all jointure," says Jason.

Word Value for jointure
Scrable

15

Words with friends

19

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