patrimony

“The paintings are the patrimony of all Mexicans,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

The disgraced former prince received the honour in 2012 "by virtue of patrimony", due to his father Prince Philip having been a Freeman.

From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026

They will be relentless in protecting their patrimony.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026

Michael Barry, a leading specialist in miniature art, said that people being deprived of their cultural patrimony was "the height of injustice".

From Barron's ● Feb. 4, 2026

But above all else, he should abstain from seizing the property of others; for men forget the death of their father more quickly than the loss of their patrimony.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

India and China placed their cultural patrimonies in lockdown, where they have stayed, with China now aggressively buying back art from abroad.

From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2011

Johnson's double vision makes him a formidable competitor and one of those rare sons who increase exponentially the patrimonies of their fathers.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is strange how we men love another who has shared and spent with us our late patrimonies.

From Arms and the Woman by Harold MacGrath

Cobham's and Grey's vast patrimonies were wholly confiscated.

From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by W. (William) Stebbing

Their only efforts are to increase their convents, taking away from the bishops the benefices and patrimonies which your Majesty has given them.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 25 of 55 1635-36 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by James Alexander Robertson