Proprietarial
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /pɹəˌpɹaɪ.əˈtɛəɹi.əl/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Proprietarial is an adjective meaning Pertaining to proprietarians or proprietarianism (in colonial North America).
Meaning
Pertaining to proprietarians or proprietarianism (in colonial North America).
More Meanings
- (uncommon) Proprietary or proprietorial; pertaining to property or ownership (of property).
Example Sentences
In Charleston, the aftermath of the Yamassee War was one of reorganization, regulation and a massive political shift as the colony moved from proprietarial control to become a royal colony.
They extended the proprietarial and contractual provisions of emerging commercial law to seize local peasant debtors as slaves, [...] ‘Proprietarial’ interests in both outsiders and local debtors, commercialized for purposes of negotiability, thus appeared several millennia ago in Mesopotamia. However, to construe these atypical transactions [...] as defining of ‘slavery’, would then indulge the selective fallacy of origins — in relation to modern thoroughly proprietarial slavery [...]
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include proprietorial, proprietory, proprietary, patrimonial, proprietive, paternalist.
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