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Definition of Dowering
1. dower [v] - See also: dower
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dowering
Literary usage of Dowering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"Now introduced into cultivation ; a detailed account of the flowers and dowering
U given by Dr. ... dowering ..."
2. International Law: Private and Criminal by Ludwig von Bar, George Robertson Gillespie (1883)
"... son has inherited.7 E. DUTY OF MAINTENANCE' AND dowering. § 105. The obligation
to maintain and to dower arising from kinship is to be decided according ..."
3. A Selection of Cases on the Law of Sales of Personal Property by Samuel Williston (1894)
"In an action tried before me at Guildhall, after the last Trinity Term, it appeared
in evidence that one dowering had bought a cask of indigo of ..."
4. Social France in the XVII Century by Cécile Hugon (1911)
"Occasional expenses, such as the dowering of daughters, were provided for in
other ways. That these expenses were heavy /‘ cannot be doubted. ..."
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