Patrimony
['pætrɪmənɪ] or ['pætrɪmoni]
Definition
(n.) A right or estate inherited from one's father; or, in a larger sense, from any ancestor.
(n.) Formerly, a church estate or endowment.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Inheritance, heritage, paternal or hereditary estate.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Inheritance, heritage
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Definition
n. a right or estate inherited from a father or from one's ancestors: a church estate or revenue.—adj. Patrimō′nial pertaining to a patrimony: inherited from ancestors.—adv. Patrimō′nially.
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Examples
- The dominions of the Duke of Normandy, for example, were more extensive and more powerful than the patrimony of Hugh Capet. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Is it too much that two Saxons, myself and the noble Athelstane, should hold land in the country which was once the patrimony of our race? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- My own little patrimony is hardly sufficient to make her independent of the world. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- His brother sits in the seat, and usurps the patrimony, of a better race, the race of Ulfgar of Middleham; but what Norman lord doth not the same? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
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