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Another word for patrimony

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Noun

  1. Any special privilege accorded a firstborn

      1. Something owed since birth, due to inheritance.
      2. A right, possession, or privilege that is one's due by birth.
      3. A right or the rights that a person has because of being born in a certain family, nation, etc.
      1. A domesticated animal or a crop of a traditional breed, usually not widely produced for commercial purposes.
      2. The status acquired by a person through birth; a birthright:
      3. Property that is or can be inherited; an inheritance.
      1. (Biology) The process of genetic transmission of characteristics from parent or ancestor to offspring.
      2. Something regarded as a heritage:
      3. The action of inheriting something:
      1. Money or property given to another by will.
      2. An individual who is either an applicant to an educational institution or a matriculated student and is the child of an alumna or alumnus.
      3. Something handed down from an ancestor or a predecessor or from the past:
    See also:

    owned

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Another word for patrimony

Noun
      1. (Biology) The process of genetic transmission of characteristics from parent or ancestor to offspring.
      2. Something regarded as a heritage:
      3. The action of inheriting something:
      1. A right, possession, or privilege that is one's due by birth.
      2. Something owed since birth, due to inheritance.
      3. A right or the rights that a person has because of being born in a certain family, nation, etc.
      1. (Archaic) A gift by a man to his bride
      2. Money or property brought by a bride to her husband at marriage.
      3. The property that a woman brings to her husband at marriage
      1. A domesticated animal or a crop of a traditional breed, usually not widely produced for commercial purposes.
      2. The status acquired by a person through birth; a birthright:
      3. Property that is or can be inherited; an inheritance.
    See also:

    gift

    heritage

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Sentence Examples

  • The patrimony of Italian charitable institutions is considerable and is constantly increasing.

  • His patrimony and his wife's dowry must both have been trifling.

  • The loss of his patrimony, however, thanks no doubt to his mother's providence, did not prevent Propertius from receiving a superior education.

  • Henceforth Emilia, Romagna, the March of Ancona, the patrimony of St Peter and the Campagna of Rome held of the Holy See, and not of the empire.

  • solemn profession in a religious order, patrimony and benefice.

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