Literary notes about entails (AI summary)
In literature, the term "entails" is employed to signify that one condition or action necessarily brings about another outcome. It is used to underscore the inescapable link between cause and consequence, as when a personal discovery comes with an inner burden of responsibility ([1]) or when legal conditions bind property and inheritance rights ([2], [3], [4]). The word also captures the idea that certain actions naturally lead to further results, whether in the physical demands of labor ([5]) or the logical progression of ideas in mathematical formulations ([6], [7]). Moreover, it conveys a spectrum of implications—from the inevitable hardships associated with specific choices ([8]) to the broader ripple effects in social and emotional realms ([9], [10], [11]). Overall, "entails" enriches literary expression by precisely linking an initiating act to its inevitable, often complex, consequences.
- He will need to determine, in the privacy of his own conscience and without pressure, the spiritual responsibility this discovery entails.
— from One Common Faith by Bahá'í International Community - There is, however, an exception which he would make to the rule against perpetuity of entails.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64, No. 393, July 1848 by Various - When great landed estates were a sort of principalities, entails might not be unreasonable.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith - Entails are the natural consequences of the law of primogeniture.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith - The very nature of farming entails hard work and long hours, especially at certain seasons.
— from Community Civics and Rural Life by Arthur William Dunn - Therefore this fact only entails division by 2.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney - " p entails q " will be related to " q follows from, p " in the same way in which "A is greater than B" is related to "B is less than A."
— from Philosophical Studies by G. E. (George Edward) Moore - I tell you it entails hardships, and privations, and sufferings which you could not guess at.
— from The Lost Continent by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne - Every action entails reaction, every sorrow and every joy has its degree in the social scale.
— from The thread of life by Infanta of Spain Eulalia - Being accustomed to a high degree of freedom, he has been trained to a high conception of the responsibilities that that freedom entails.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States by George T. Flom - What a man is and has in himself,—in a word personality, with all it entails, is the only immediate and direct factor in his happiness and welfare.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer
