Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or right of a first-born son.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or privileges of the firstborn.
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- noun The state or
privileges of thefirstborn .
Etymologies
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primogeniture + -ship
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Examples
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By the aristocratical law of primogenitureship, in a family of six children, five are exposed.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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