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attorn
[ uh-turn ]
verb (used without object)
- to acknowledge the relation of a tenant to a new landlord.
verb (used with object)
- to turn over to another; transfer.
attorn
/ əˈɜː /
verb
- law to acknowledge a new owner of land as one's landlord
- feudal history to transfer allegiance or do homage to a new lord
Derived Forms
- ˈٴǰԳԳ, noun
Other yvlog Forms
- ·ٴǰmԳ noun
yvlog History and Origins
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of attorn1
Example Sentences
The tenants on the land had all long ago attorned to them, father and son, from time out of mind, paying rent regularly.
But he hankered after his elder Brother’s Estate, and, on his Death, suddenly got the Tenants to attorn to him, and basely dispossessed his Nephew.
When the Gaelic League decided to make the learning of Irish compulsory, it attorned to this tyranny.
A strong advocate of Repeal and tenant-right, he gradually attorned to the Young Irelanders when he discovered that the Whig Government had bought up Conciliation Hall.
The Judge on the bench he looked awfully stern; The District Attorney began to attorn; The witnesses lied and the lawyers—O my!—
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