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• Annotation: alienable,

  Category: Custom & Law | Type: Glossary Word | Title: Persuasion (in Context) | Author: Jane Austen | Ch: Chapter 1
  • A legal term, in this case meaning able to be sold.

• Annotation: dispose of;

  Type: Glossary Word | Title: Persuasion (in Context) | Author: Jane Austen | Ch: Chapter 1
  • Sell. Sir Walter's problem, a part of the legal restrictions upon the estate, is that his income is …

• Annotation: duodecimo

  Category: Writing & Reading | Type: Glossary Word | Title: Persuasion (in Context) | Author: Jane Austen | Ch: Chapter 1
  • "The size of a book, or of the page of a book, in which each leaf is one-twelfth of a whole sheet: u…

• Annotation: patents;

  Category: Class | Type: Glossary Word | Title: Persuasion (in Context) | Author: Jane Austen | Ch: Chapter 1
  • A patent is a document originating with the king or queen and conferring in this case the title of b…

• Annotation: well provided for,

  Category: Money | Type: Glossary Word | Title: Persuasion (in Context) | Author: Jane Austen | Ch: Chapter 1
  • Wealthy, through her deceased husband. The ideal situation for a woman, for it conferred both wealth…