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MUNIMENTS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does muniments mean?
• MUNIMENTS (noun)
The noun MUNIMENTS has 1 sense:
1. deeds and other documentary evidence of title to land
Familiarity information: MUNIMENTS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Deeds and other documentary evidence of title to land
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("muniments" is a kind of...):
title deed (a legal document proving a person's right to property)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Context examples
It is sufficient to know that the name to which I do myself the honour to refer, will ever be treasured among the muniments of our house (I allude to the archives connected with our former lodgers, preserved by Mrs. Micawber), with sentiments of personal esteem amounting to affection.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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