Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to primogeniture.
- noun Primogeniture; right of primogeniture.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Of or pertaining to primogeniture.
- noun obsolete Primogeniture.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
primogeniture
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Examples
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De Stancy had long since discovered that his chance lay chiefly in her recently acquired and fanciful predilection d'artiste for hoary mediaeval families with ancestors in alabaster and primogenitive renown.
A Laodicean : a Story of To-day Thomas Hardy 1884
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