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Meaning of attorn in English

  1. Pronunciation

    /əˈtərn/

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  1. Verb

    attorn

    Etymology

    Middle English (in the senses ‘turn, change, transform’): from Old French atorner‘appoint, assign’, from a- (from Latin ad‘to, at’) + torner‘to turn’. The spelling with o rather than u or ou, as might have been expected in English, is due to the late Anglo-Norman French form attorner, adopted in legal use

    Definitions

    1. acknowledge a new land owner as one's landlord

    Examples

    • « he was attorned by the tenants »

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