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[ UK /pˈætɹɪməni/ ]
[ US /ˈpætɹəˌmoʊni/ ]
NOUN
  1. an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture)
  2. a church endowment

How To Use patrimony In A Sentence

  • It suggests the integration of two distinct normative scopes of the society, the legal right and consuetudinary law, with the objective to argue that the legal instruments of the Brazilian society can be used to protect the cultural and natural patrimony.
  • There was a void of cultural leadership about how to handle the city's built patrimony.
  • It is dedicated to Argentine cinema and its patrimony is shaped by the first cameras and projectors, with moviolas, wardrobes, equipment, models, sketches, awards and personal belongings of actresses, actors and movie directors.
  • He has been described by a writer unfriendly to his politics as "the most brilliant man in the Senate; a man so wonderfully rich, that though he seeks to beggar himself in talents and opportunities, he has left a patrimony large enough to outdazzle most of his colleagues. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States
  • And once transformed into a narrative, they form part of a common patrimony, available to anyone in the culture.
  • Despite the continuous processes of deforestation, agricultural extensification and fragmentation, the patrimony forest does have lower rates of change (compared to the rest of the study area not in patrimony forest), suggesting it does act to constrain the process of forest conversion. Protected areas
  • The modern official formation of the Japanese canon of cultural patrimony dates back to the first cultural protection law of 1871.
  • Cultural and intellectual heritage is regarded as the property of society at large, the collective patrimony of whole nations and peoples.
  • For many nuns their status as a professed religious did not necessarily obviate access to various parts of familial patrimony.
  • Moresco moved back to his old neighborhood and started writing as a way to explore the pain and the patrimony of Hell's Kitchen.
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