"lifehold" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: lifeholds [plural]
Etymology: From life + hold. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|life|hold}} life + hold Head templates: {{en-noun}} lifehold (plural lifeholds)
  1. Land held by a life estate.
    Sense id: en-lifehold-en-noun-7z~Txkxv Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, chapter XV, in The Woodlanders […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:",
          "text": "He was quite angry with circumstances for so heedlessly inflicting on Giles a second trouble when the needful one inflicted by himself was all that the proper order of events demanded. \"I told Giles's father when he came into those houses not to spend too much money on lifehold property held neither for his own life nor his son's,\" he exclaimed. \"But he wouldn't listen to me. And now Giles has to suffer for it.\"",
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