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
- for the sins of mistresses entail this mischief among others;†
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) 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.