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How to use patrimony in a sentence

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Thus, noble and even non-noble families incorporated great amounts of their patrimony into these entailed estates.
For many nuns their status as a professed religious did not necessarily obviate access to various parts of familial patrimony.
They belong permanently to Europe's spiritual patrimony and ought to remain constitutive of its unity.
Its developers worked in unusual sympathy, preserving the watercourses, mature trees and shoreline that were, and remain, the site's patrimony.
The shiring of the Irish midlands by the English in 1605 placed the O'Carroll patrimony in Leinster.
And once transformed into a narrative, they form part of a common patrimony, available to anyone in the culture.
Male monasteries did not require dowries of their professed members and represented less of a threat to the family patrimony.
This saurian symbol of Chinese emperors has been claimed, from the mid-1980s onward, as the common patrimony of all Chinese people.
According to the law of Abdera, whoever wasted his patrimony would be deprived of the rites of burial.
The Tibetans aren't quite as keen to sell their patrimony, but nobody's asking them.
They hoped to foster intercultural communications with other Panamanians and emphasize the indigenous concept of natural resource patrimony.
After all, the history of the United States has left a peculiar ideological patrimony.
Cultural and intellectual heritage is regarded as the property of society at large, the collective patrimony of whole nations and peoples.
There was a void of cultural leadership about how to handle the city's built patrimony.
Other projects have included photography work on the architectural history of Sofia as well as on Ottoman architectural patrimony.
Norman abbots energetically fought off the encroachments on the wealth and patrimony of the houses on which the abbots' own fates depended.
His defense was crucially based on his assertion that he was completely unaware that Egypt had cultural patrimony laws of any kind.
Now this artistic and scientific patrimony is constantly under threat of destruction.
Each was a long, highly literary, digressive, and polemical account of the failure of the colonists to make good their British patrimony.
It is the belief that a population can know its own geologic history, the patrimony of art, the folk art and customs.
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A man will become a miner or a railwayman 'by patrimony,' and it will be difficult to gain admission to a union in any other way.
Sooner or later a portion of the patrimony will have to be doled out to him.
For they who have wasted their patrimony, as the Stagirite shrewdly observes, are great promoters of innovation!
Within a day or so he came to consult me about a mortgage on his patrimony.
I only wish I didn't have to put all my patrimony into Madame Tancredi's pocket.
Mme Boursier, knowing the poverty of her paramour, had paid him as her cicisbeo, squandering upon him her children's patrimony.
Little Phoebe was one of those persons who possess, as their exclusive patrimony, the gift of practical arrangement.
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?
A YOUNG MAN, a great spendthrift, had run through all his patrimony and had but one good cloak left.
One of them, the former probably, was the patrimony of Llywarch Hen.
Still, fate can rob us of our patrimony, she replied, after a pause.
But I have lost all my patrimony, and I will accept nothing.
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