The act of making or becoming a single unit.
(Law) an estate secured to a prospective wife as a marriage settlement in lieu of a dower.
1 The rents only sufficed to pay the charges and the widow's jointure .
2 The largest jointure moves her not, titles of honour cannot sway her.
3 A jointure had to be paid Lady Shelley of £500 a year.
4 Medora, if Lizzie remembered rightly, had had no jointure or private fortune.
5 But paying the Rani's jointure - that was a bitter pill, I grant you.
6 The Castle of Montargis is my jointure ; at Orleans there is no house.
7 He felt the jointure with his feet-somerenewal or stoppage of the timber.
8 His widow lives, in complete seclusion, at her jointure - house near Twickenham.
9 She left L800 a year jointure , a son to inherit the whole estate.
10 Sir Edward and Lady Elizabeth went to law about her jointure .
11 You'll have to give up half your jointure for your life.
12 His mother, indeed, who lived till ninety, had a jointure of six hundred.
13 Then there is her jointure , something like ten thousand a year.
14 But it will make up what Papa spent of your jointure .
15 She must have a handsome jointure ; but what are your grounds?'
16 She was an Irish peer's widow, with a jointure of L2000 a year.
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