All 4 Uses of
entails
in
1984, by Orwell
- He wrote: Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.
p. 28.4entail = involve
- Winston debated with himself whether to award Comrade Ogilvy the Order of Conspicuous Merit: in the end he decided against it because of the unnecessary cross-referencing that it would entail.
p. 47.7entail = require
- It was more than a month distant, but the enormous, complex preparations that it entailed were throwing extra work on to everybody.
p. 138.8 *entailed = required
- But this, too, entailed military weakness, and since the privations it inflicted were obviously unnecessary, it made opposition inevitable.
p. 190.9entailed = involved or required
Definitions:
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(1)
(entails) involves or requires
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Entail also had a specialized meaning in law related to limiting the inheritance of property or order of succession. That sense is often seen in classic literature.