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A right or privilege that you are entitled to at birth
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birthright
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ She seemed to regard an easy, comfortable life as some kind of birthright . ▪ The President ended his speech by saying "Dignity and self-respect are the birthright of every American citizen." EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ As ...
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n. a right or privilege that you are entitled to at birth; "free public education is the birthright of every American child" an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture) [syn: patrimony ] personal characteristics that are inherited ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also birth-right , 1530s, from birth (n.) + right (n.). Used as an adjective from 1650s, especially by Quakers.
Usage examples of birthright.
Snowhue felt that the matronage and birthright should now come to her.
Instead of taking on his birthright and his place at Pantiles, he had decided to go into business.
The wild temptation to sell her Plummer birthright for a kiss assailed her.
I have reft from you your birthright, she who is of all things most precious.
He gave her that much but was mad with himself for going flabby enough to forget his schlemiel birthright.
England it is the known birthright and inheritance of the subject that no tax, tallage, or other charge shall be levied or imposed but by common consent in England, and that the subsidies of tonnage and poundage are no way due or payable but by a free gift and special Act of Parliament.
It seems to me that if there be one subject upon which all good men may unitedly agree, it is imploring the gracious favor of the God of Nations upon the struggles our people are making for the preservation of their precious birthright of civil and religious liberty.
The villein took the cruel blow without wince or cry, as one to whom stripes are a birthright and an inheritance.
I am here to inform you that you will be required to turn over your son to a more traditional House, in order that he might receive the upbringing which is his birthright.
But she would never judge others based on appearance or birthright, as Kalina seemed to do.
It is our corrupt government of loquacious fat cats in Kinshasa who sell our birthright to the foreigners, and then tax us for our trouble!
The Mwangaza has mortgaged our birthright to the Kinshasa fatcatsf Forsaking Hannah, he places himself in front of me.
Ramon told Luis many times the government wanted to sweep away old Spain, a society built on Catholicism, monarchy, and the military, buttressed by birthright and honor.
Beneath the coat, he wore an old rough-spun shirt embroidered with the coiled dragon, the symbol of the Ordinis Draconis, his birthright going back generations.
He gave her that much but was mad with himself for going flabby enough to forget his schlemihl birthright.