appanage

nounendowment

Synonyms for appanage

noun endowment

Antonyms for appanage

detriment

Word Origin & History

c.1600, from French apanage (13c.), from apaner "to endow with means of subsistence," from Medieval Latin appanare "equip with bread," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + panis "bread" (see food). Originally, provisions made for younger children of royalty. The double -p- restored in French 15c.-16c., in English 17c.

Example Sentences for appanage

And needless to say Leopold can't get along on his salary and appanage.

He would then marry the daughter of one of them, and annex Scotland as her appanage.

She will receive an appanage of twenty-five thousand gulden a year.

Last night independent, mistress of her own destiny, this morning she was an appanage.

But the superior income which is the appanage of superior status is not rent of ability.

It was, he considered, the garment and appanage of every sentient being.

The idea of a house which was but an appanage of the church was new to her.

Azerbaijan is an appanage of the Vali Ahd (the Persian heir-apparent).

"Let his Royal Highness depart with his appanage," wrote he.

His glory is the property of no party or opinion; it is the appanage and inheritance of all.

appanage

Synonyms for appanage

Antonyms for appanage

privilege

privileges

right

rights

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Antonyms for appanage

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privilege

privileges

right

rights

Synonyms for appanage

prerogative