patrimony
IPA: pˈætrʌmoʊni
noun
- A right or estate inherited from one's father; or, in a larger sense, from any male ancestor.
- Formerly, a church estate or endowment.
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Examples of "patrimony" in Sentences
- The regime has a rich historical patrimony.
- I've added some stuff to patrimony of affectation.
- He advocated safeguards to protect the national patrimony.
- Nothing less than Mexico's cultural patrimony is at stake.
- I propose to create a paragraph about the artistic patrimony.
- A key portion of the family patrimony was in the King's hands.
- The foundation has a distinct patrimony independent of its founder.
- Reopened recently, Kahal is part of the Pernambuco historic patrimony.
- The archeological site was declared a national cultural patrimony in 2009.
- In the 1970s, Tamura documented the topography and cultural patrimony of Japan.
- "Property" is vague, and Machiavelli in other chapters more often referred to "patrimony," meaning one's rightful inheritance.
- "Ninety-five percent of the people of the world have - they use the word patrimony in conversation, and it's a very emotionally charged word," Edsel observed.
- The wording of Mary's patent letters indicates that the proper context for assessing the origin and significance of her patrimony is in the unique political situation taking shape in the days immediately following Henry VIII's death.
- To tell these young readers that such poets are part of their "patrimony" is only another way of saying they should read poetry because it's good for them, a strategy that will only make it certain they'll never want to read a line of verse ever again.
- As for oil -- or what President Bush referred to, on the rare occasion when he mentioned it, as Iraq's "patrimony" -- mum was the word, even though that country had the world's third largest proven petroleum reserves and sat strategically at the heart of the energy heartlands of the planet.
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