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- noun Plural form of
patrimony .
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Examples
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With the exception of Social Security, so far, all these patrimonies are being stripped from the masses.
Nicholas Carroll: Occupy Wall Street as Seen Through Machiavelli's Lens Nicholas Carroll 2011
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With the exception of Social Security, so far, all these patrimonies are being stripped from the masses.
Nicholas Carroll: Occupy Wall Street as Seen Through Machiavelli's Lens Nicholas Carroll 2011
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Taxes for great patrimonies should be increased, the costs of politics should be decreased as should the size of administrative structures.
Walter Veltroni: The Future of Italy Walter Veltroni 2011
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Patrick's two patrimonies, privilege and damage, continue to fight it out between them.
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With the exception of Social Security, so far, all these patrimonies are being stripped from the masses.
Nicholas Carroll: Occupy Wall Street as Seen Through Machiavelli's Lens Nicholas Carroll 2011
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These factors also indicate that the proper context for her (and Elizabeth's) patrimonies was not Henry's will but, rather, the unusual political situation taking shape after Henry's death.
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Note 11: In this way, the patrimonies granted to Mary and Elizabeth differed from those granted to younger royal sons or uncles which were entailed on their legitimate heirs and were meant to be permanent alienations of royal estates, Wolffe, Crown Lands ..., p. 31 back
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An example of the connection between political status and land is detailed below in the discussion of the dispersal, location, and value of Mary's and Elizabeth's patrimonies.
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As discussed by numerous scholars, these bribes took the form of property grants. 27 This is the context that, as detailed later, helps to make sense of how and why Mary and Elizabeth were the first princesses in English history to obtain landed patrimonies before marriage. 28 Historians generally cite Paget's May 30 grant as the first of these landed bribes. 29 Significantly, Mary obtained her estates two weeks before Paget did.
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Mary and Elizabeth did not obtain landed patrimonies because their father bequeathed them estates in his will.
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