All 3 Uses of
entails
in
Don Quixote
- This like some holy relic do I prize To save me from the fate my truth entails, Truth that to thy hard heart its vigour owes.†
Chpt 1.33-34 *entails = involves or requires
- apprehension of losing her reputation through her means; for this abandoned and bold Leonela, as soon as she perceived that her mistress's demeanour was not what it was wont to be, had the audacity to introduce her lover into the house, confident that even if her mistress saw him she would not dare to expose him; for the sins of mistresses entail this mischief among others; they make themselves the slaves of their own servants, and are obliged to hide their laxities and depravities; as was the case with Camilla, who though she perceived, not once but many times, that Leonela was with her lover in some room of the house, not only did not dare to chide her, but afforded her opportunities fo†
Chpt 1.33-34
- He began to write, but before he had put down all he meant to say, his breath failed him and he yielded up his life, a victim to the suffering which his ill-advised curiosity had entailed upon him.†
Chpt 1.35-36
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.