Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The right of the youngest Porn.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The right of the youngest born.
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- noun
Inheritance by the last-born child of theentirety of, or of aprivileged position in, aparent ’swealth ,estate , oroffice ;ultimogeniture .
Etymologies
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First attested in 1865; either Latin postrēmōgenitus ("last-born") + English -ure or the compounding in English of the Latin postrēmus ("[person who is] last") + genitūra, in both cases after primogeniture; compare postreme.
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