patrimony
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bequest, birthright, heritage, inheritance, legacy
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By Geoffrey Parker Yale, 737 pages, $35 As Mr. Parker shows, Charles’s life (1500-58) encompassed the new currents of the Renaissance and the challenges posed by the Protestant Reformation, as well the social patrimony of the late Middle Ages. — William Anthony Hay, WSJ, "‘Emperor’ Review: A Sovereign on the Move," 21 June 2019 Recorded music is arguably America’s great artistic patrimony, our supreme gift to world culture. — New York Times, "The Day the Music Burned," 11 June 2019 Artists famous for activism around masters, like Prince, have construed the issue strictly as a labor-versus-management struggle, a matter of individual artists’ rights, not as a question of collective cultural patrimony. — New York Times, "The Day the Music Burned," 11 June 2019 But when the youthful Republic had gotten over its tantrums and recognized that its artistic patrimony was worth saving. — Bruce Dale, National Geographic, "Adored, neglected, and restored: A 1968 Nat Geo feature explored Notre Dame," 17 Apr. 2019 Sabine Schmidtke of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., the portal aims to preserve, study and make available online the rich patrimony of Zaydi texts. — Christian C. Sahner, WSJ, "Yemen’s Threatened Cultural Heritage," 25 Dec. 2018 Thus, while war ravages the country, a digital salvage operation of Yemen’s patrimony is well under way. — Christian C. Sahner, WSJ, "Yemen’s Threatened Cultural Heritage," 25 Dec. 2018 This patrimony has fallen under grave threat as a result of the civil war. — Christian C. Sahner, WSJ, "Yemen’s Threatened Cultural Heritage," 25 Dec. 2018 So in October, lawmakers passed another bill declaring tejo part of the national patrimony, noting that it was invented by local Muisca Indians long before the Spanish conquest. — John Otis, WSJ, "Colombia Wants to Boost Its National Sport. That Might Mean Less Beer.," 4 Dec. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'patrimony.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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