The word denotes in very early French law the portion of lands or money given by fathers and mothers to their sons or daughters on marriage, and usually connotes a renunciation by the latter of any future inheritance; or it may denote the portion given by the eldest son to his brothers and sisters when he was sole inheritor. [Please select]
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When a seigneury changed owners otherwise than by inheritance in direct succession, a payment known as the _quint_ (being, as the name connotes, one-fifth of the reported value) became payable to the royal treasury, but this was rarely collected. [Please select]
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1 quality generally connotes fineness and paleness with a thin crepe which has a good, smooth, and fairly well-knit texture. [Please select]
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And this difference in the point of view of the judiciary connotes a general difference of outlook which makes itself felt today even in that field where Marshall wrought most enduringly. [Please select]
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Consciousness connotes a kind of external relation, and does not denote a special stuff or way of being. [Please select]
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The old word "will" now connotes only a sort of result, an individual reaction, that follows inevitably upon a series of partly discordant and partly harmonious stimuli--the will no longer "acts," or "moves." [Please select]
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An actor should never let himself be beguiled into the belief that society, generally speaking, is seriously interested in what he does, or that popularity in drawing-rooms connotes success in the theatre. [Please select]
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