appanage
Example Sentences
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Something more is required to compose a work such as "Faust"; that something which is the appanage of but few composers, and which is known as "individuality."
From Masters of French Music by Hervey, Arthur
For the internal regulation of the conscience it had erected the institution of auricular confession, which by this time had become almost the exclusive appanage of the priesthood.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles
Acre was added to acre and estate to estate,141 often by the dangerous expedient of borrowed money, until Buckinghamshire seemed likely to become the appanage of the family.
From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Phillip Primrose
Although the hereditary title of Count was the appanage of this rank, he never took it up.
From Victor Hugo: His Life and Works by Smith, G. Barnett
It must be borne in mind, however, that Ceylon is an appanage of the British Crown, and it is not an independent, self-supporting colony.
