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Meaning of "primogenitive" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF PRIMOGENITIVE

ˌpraɪməʊˈdʒɛnɪtɪv


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PRIMOGENITIVE

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

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PRIMOGENITIVE

admonitive · affinitive · cognitive · competitive · definitive · genitive · infinitive · lenitive · monitive · neurocognitive · non-punitive · noncognitive · nonpunitive · philoprogenitive · precognitive · premonitive · progenitive · punitive · recognitive · unitive

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PRIMOGENITIVE

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

WORDS THAT END LIKE PRIMOGENITIVE

active · additive · aperitive · capacitive · case-sensitive · false positive · fugitive · HIV-positive · inquisitive · insensitive · intransitive · intuitive · nutritive · positive · price-sensitive · primitive · prohibitive · repetitive · sensitive · time-sensitive · transitive

Synonyms and antonyms of primogenitive in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «primogenitive» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PRIMOGENITIVE

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The translations of primogenitive from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «primogenitive» in English.
zh

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primogenitive
1,325 millions of speakers
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primogenitive
570 millions of speakers
en

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primogenitive
510 millions of speakers
hi

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primogenitive
380 millions of speakers
ar

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primogenitive
280 millions of speakers
ru

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primogenitive
278 millions of speakers
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primogenitive
270 millions of speakers
bn

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primogenitive
260 millions of speakers
fr

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primogenitive
220 millions of speakers
ms

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Primogenitif
190 millions of speakers
de

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primogenitive
180 millions of speakers
ja

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primogenitive
130 millions of speakers
ko

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primogenitive
85 millions of speakers
jv

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Primogenitif
85 millions of speakers
vi

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primogenitive
80 millions of speakers
ta

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primogenitive
75 millions of speakers
mr

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प्रजननकारक
75 millions of speakers
tr

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primogenitive
70 millions of speakers
it

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primogenitive
65 millions of speakers
pl

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primogenitive
50 millions of speakers
uk

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primogenitive
40 millions of speakers
ro

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primogenitive
30 millions of speakers
el

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primogenitive
15 millions of speakers
af

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primogenitive
14 millions of speakers
sv

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primogenitive
10 millions of speakers
no

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primogenitive
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of primogenitive

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PRIMOGENITIVE»

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PRIMOGENITIVE»

Discover the use of primogenitive in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to primogenitive and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Renaissance Hamlet: Issues and Responses in 1600
This left Henry de Bourbon, the Huguenot King of Navarre, as the primogenitive heir to the French throne, an eventuality the Catholic League in France was unwilling to accept. As a result, some Catholic leaders attempted to insert Henry de ...
Roland Mushat Frye, 2014
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The Monthly Repository
The system of primogenitive inheritance utterly destroys this ' salutary principle; and for the following reasons: — 1. It confines the great majority of the property of the country in the hands of a few inheritors by birth, and deprives the nation at ...
Leigh Hunt, 1834
3
The Mahābhārata Patriline: Gender, Culture, and the Royal ...
The primogenitive male line is said here to carry with it possession of the estate - the patrimony of the primogenitive male ancestors. The primogenitive male line, and the concept of serious debt that it contains, is ritually parcelled through ...
Simon Brodbeck, 2009
4
Albion
Eileen Spring rejoinders: My criticism extends beyond An Open Elite? to encompass Stone's theory of the family. My point is that Stone has not used the strict settlement as a primogenitive device, but has used it in different ways in different ...
‎1985
5
American Gothic: New Interventions in a National Narrative
In Faulkner's words, "[i]t was as though he and all other manshaped life about him had been returned to the lightless hot wet primogenitive Female," a maternal space not unlike the "black pit" from which Christmas, while on the run from the law ...
Robert K. Martin, Eric Savoy, 1998
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William Faulkner: Seeing Through the South
On all sides, even within him, the bodiless fecundmellow voices of negro women murmured. It was as though he and all other manshaped life about him had been returned to the Iightless hot wet primogenitive Female. (p. 115) Even as he lives ...
John T. Matthews, 2011
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The Works of William Shakespeare: King Henry VIII. Troilus ...
How could communities, Degrees in schools and brotherhoods in cities, Peaceful commerce from dividable shores, 105 The primogenitive and due of birth, Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels, But by degree, stand in authentic place ?
William Shakespeare, William George Clark, William Aldis Wright, 1865
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Gender and Narrative in the Mahabharata
Before their story is told in full, we are given tales of odd behaviour in many previous generations of the royal line (Bhı ̄s ̇ma, for example, abdicated his primogenitive claim to the throne and vowed life-long celibacy in order that his aged ...
Simon Brodbeck, Brian Black, 2007
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Religion, Literature, and Politics in Post-Reformation ...
Once Monmouth's illegitimacy was refuted, then his candidacy was secured by primogenitive hereditary right. Monmouth "is legitimate, and the next lineal and lawful heres sanguinis, heir of blood, forjW sanguinis is the law of God and nature" ...
Donna B. Hamilton, Richard Strier, 1996
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Law, Land, and Family: Aristocratic Inheritance in England ...
There are obvious difficulties in associating a primogenitive device with increased provision for the subordinate members of the family. While Bonfield, with a certain consistency in this case, holds that settlement was not primogenitive, his ...
Eileen Spring, 1997
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