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Birthright

Birthright Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Birthright? [n] personal characteristics that are inherited at birth [n] a right or privilege that you are entitled to at birth; "free public education is the birthright of every American child" [n] an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture) Synonyms \| Synonyms for Birthright: patrimony Related Terms \| Find terms related to Birthright: appanage \| appurtenance \| authority \| bequeathal \| bequest \| borough-English \| claim \| coheirship \| conjugal right \| coparcenary \| demand \| divine right \| droit \| due \| entail \| faculty \| gavelkind \| heirloom \| heirship \| hereditament \| heritable \| heritage \| heritance \| inalienable right \| incorporeal hereditament \| inheritance \| interest \| law of succession \| legacy \| line of succession \| mode of succession \| natural right \| patrimony \| perquisite \| postremogeniture \| power \| prerogative \| prescription \| presumptive right \| pretense \| pretension \| primogeniture \| privilege \| proper claim \| property right \| reversion \| right \| succession \| title \| ultimogeniture \| vested interest \| vested right See Also \| heritage \| heritage \| inheritance \| inheritance Birthright In Webster's Dictionary \Birth"right`\, n. Any right, privilege, or possession to which a person is entitled by birth, such as an estate descendible by law to an heir, or civil liberty under a free constitution; esp. the rights or inheritance of the first born. Lest there be any . . . profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. --Heb. xii. 16.

Birthright Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Birthright?

[n] personal characteristics that are inherited at birth
[n] a right or privilege that you are entitled to at birth; "free public education is the birthright of every American child"
[n] an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture)

Synonyms | Synonyms for Birthright: patrimony

See Also | heritage | heritage | inheritance | inheritance

Birthright In Webster's Dictionary

\Birth"right`\, n.
Any right, privilege, or possession to which a person is
entitled by birth, such as an estate descendible by law to an
heir, or civil liberty under a free constitution; esp. the
rights or inheritance of the first born.

      Lest there be any . . . profane person, as Esau, who
      for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. --Heb. xii.
                                               16.

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