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Meanings of dower in English
Synonyms
Examples for "portion"
Examples for "portion"
1
The next portion involves risk by building businesses and hiring good people.
2
Well, let me go back to the second portion of my question.
3
Single-family homes account for a large portion of the home resale market.
4
Air conditioning is a major portion of peak energy use, he said.
5
The contractile vacuole is in the anterior neck-like portion of the body.
1
In the meanwhile, the servants had carried the dowry to the wagon.
2
But my father promised he'd make sure my dowry was well protected.
3
With her dowry William expanded his business and acquired a second shop.
4
On the condition that I-thatI fix the amount of the dowry.
5
For those reasons, he is prepared to overlook your lack of dowry.
1
Farewell, Kathi; now that you have a dowery, you will speedily find a husband.
Usage of dower in English
1
With the exception of certain dower rights the whole vests in yourself.
2
That her dower was anywhere near three thousand dollars was exceedingly doubtful.
3
A wife who remarried or bore a child lost her dower land.
4
When we have succeeded, we will give his daughter a handsome dower.
5
There was, however, no lack of candidates for Mary's hand and dower.
6
Don't trifle with love, girl, it's God Almighty's dower to a woman.
7
In times past Bridge House was a dower house of the Ormonde family.
8
It is about that I wish to speak to you-asto the dower.
9
More important still were the woman's dower and her personal fortune.
10
This generous disposition of yours I now regard as acme of human dower.
11
The dower that I should bring you would be sickness, gloom, and poverty.
12
I only wish that I had a dower to bring you.
13
Her claim was clear enough-theright of dower, a third of his estate.
14
Thus her sole dower was her pretty face and her cunning.
15
Must yield its pomp, and wait till ages are its dower.
16
This was how she and Caroline had landed at the dower-house of Pretzsch.
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