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PRONUNCIATION OF PRIMOGENITARY

primogenitary  [ˌpraɪməʊˈdʒɛnɪtərɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PRIMOGENITARY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Primogenitary is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PRIMOGENITARY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

primogenitary

Primogeniture

Primogeniture is the right, by law or custom, of the firstborn male child to inherit the family estate, in preference to siblings. In the absence of children, inheritance passed to collateral relatives, usually males, in order of seniority of their lines of descent. The eligible descendants of deceased elder siblings take precedence over living younger siblings, such that inheritance is settled in the manner of a depth-first search. The principle has applied in history to inheritance of real property as well as inherited titles and offices, most notably monarchies, continuing until modified or abolished. Variations on primogeniture modify the right of the firstborn son to the entirety of a family's inheritance or, in the West since World War II with the wider promotion of feminism, eliminate the preference for males over females. Most monarchies in Europe have eliminated male preference in succession: Belgium, Denmark, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway and Sweden.

Definition of primogenitary in the English dictionary

The definition of primogenitary in the dictionary is of or relating to the right of an eldest son to succeed to the estate of his ancestor to the exclusion of all others.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PRIMOGENITARY


admonitory
ədˈmɒnɪtərɪ
dignitary
ˈdɪɡnɪtərɪ
infinitary
ɪnˈfɪnɪtərɪ
insanitary
ɪnˈsænɪtərɪ
military
ˈmɪlɪtərɪ
monetary
ˈmʌnɪtərɪ
monitory
ˈmɒnɪtərɪ
nonmonetary
ˌnɒnˈmʌnɪtərɪ
phytosanitary
ˌfaɪtəʊˈsænɪtərɪ
planetary
ˈplænɪtərɪ
premonitory
prɪˈmɒnɪtərɪ
protoplanetary
ˌprəʊtəʊˈplænɪtərɪ
punitory
ˈpjuːnɪtərɪ
recognitory
rɪˈkɒɡnɪtərɪ
sanitary
ˈsænɪtərɪ
sonnetary
ˈsɒnɪtərɪ
territory
ˈtɛrɪtərɪ
unitary
ˈjuːnɪtərɪ
unsanitary
ʌnˈsænɪtərɪ
vanitory
ˈvænɪtərɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PRIMOGENITARY

primmer
primmest
primming
primness
primo
Primo de Rivera
primogenial
primogenit
primogenital
primogenitive
primogenitor
primogenitrices
primogenitrix
primogeniture
primordia
primordial
primordialism
primordiality
primordially
primordium

WORDS THAT END LIKE PRIMOGENITARY

antimilitary
cavitary
depositary
elementary
extralimitary
hereditary
hyperpituitary
hypopituitary
intracavitary
limitary
nonhereditary
nonmilitary
paramilitary
pituitary
plebiscitary
promilitary
solitary
termitary
the military
ubiquitary
unmilitary

Synonyms and antonyms of primogenitary in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «primogenitary» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PRIMOGENITARY

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primogenitary
1,325 millions of speakers

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primogenitary
570 millions of speakers

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primogenitary
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

primogenitary
380 millions of speakers
ar

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primogenitary
280 millions of speakers

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primogenitary
278 millions of speakers

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primogenitary
270 millions of speakers

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primogenitary
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primogenitary
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Primogeniter
190 millions of speakers

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primogenitary
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

primogenitary
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

primogenitary
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Primogenitèr
85 millions of speakers
vi

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primogenitary
80 millions of speakers

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primogenitary
75 millions of speakers

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प्रदीप्त
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

primogenitary
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

primogenitary
65 millions of speakers

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primogenitary
50 millions of speakers

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primogenitary
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

primogenitary
30 millions of speakers
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primogenitary
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

primogenitary
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

primogenitary
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

primogenitary
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of primogenitary

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PRIMOGENITARY»

The term «primogenitary» is used very little and occupies the 164.198 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PRIMOGENITARY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about primogenitary

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PRIMOGENITARY»

Discover the use of primogenitary in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to primogenitary and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The English Nobility in the Late Middle Ages: The ...
the grantee's direct line failed, the land reverted to the heirs general (i.e. the primogenitary heirs) of the grantor. Thus the essential difference between land held in tail and land held in fee simple was that the former could not be inherited by ...
Chris Given-Wilson, 2002
2
Multiobjective Discrete and Combinatorial Optimization
primogenitary. linked. quad. tree. data. structure. and. its. application. to. discrete. multiple. criteria. optimization. Minghe Sun Published online: 22 August 2006 © Springer Science + Business Media, LLC 2006 Abstract A data structure called ...
Matthias Ehrgott, José Rui Figueira, Xavier Gandibleux, 2006
3
Property law: cases, materials, and questions
In early feudal law, under a grant “to A and his heirs,” A's right to possession could not accurately be called a life estate, since the right to possession at A's death passed to A's primogenitary heir, rather than reverting to A's transferor. Instead ...
Chase, Edward Earl Chase, Julia P. Forrester, 2010
4
Ou-yang Hsiu: An Eleventh-century Neo-Confucianist
Their genealogies followed the primogenitary paternal line of descent and recorded all clan members, including those many times removed. In the Sung the term tsu came to mean a much smaller kinship group, mainly a family's relatively  ...
James T. C. Liu, 1967
5
Land in Fetters
The tendency of the action of the king's judges, consciously or unconsciously, was, by their rules as to procedure, to increase the number of primogenitary holdings. A case in A.D. 1200 is recorded thus: — Rutland : Gilebertus de Beivill petit ...
6
The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward i
William and his sons insisted on was rather ' impartible succession' than a strict application of the primogenitary rule. The Conquest had thrown into their hands a power of reviving that element of precariousness which was involved in the ...
Travers Twiss
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The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I
William and his sons insisted on was rather 'impartible succession' than a strict application of the primogenitary rule. The Conquest had thrown into their hands a power of reviving that element of precariousness which was involved in the ...
Frederick Pollock, Frederic William Maitland, 2007
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The Constitutional History of England: From the Accession of ...
... might still claim a sort of primogenitary right to protect the dignity of the junior branch by interference with the afi'airs of Spain; and a late' posterity of those who witnessed the peace of Utrecht might be entangled by its improvident ...
Henry Hallam, 1872
9
The Constitutional History of England: A Course of Lectures
We ought to recollect in this context that the then existing law as to private inheritance was not primogenitary ; ordinarily at least a dead man's lands and his goods were partible among all his sons ; all primogenitary rules were but slowly ...
Frederic William Maitland, Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher, 1908
10
English constitutional history from the Teutonic conquest to ...
I. 3 The twelve not primogenitary heirs of the Conqueror were : William II., Henry I. , Stephen, John, Henry III., Henry IV., ... although primogenitary heirs did net succeed in the regular course of descent were : Henry II., Edward III., Edward IV.
Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead, Charles Henry Edward Carmichael, 1886

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