patrimony
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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 there’s no reason for this to be so, or for it to be a problem: Classic works are the patrimony of us all, whatever our politics.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
And in 2009, the new constitution even recognized “ancestral coca as cultural patrimony, a renewable natural resource of Bolivia’s biodiversity, and as a factor of social cohesion.”
From Salon • Mar. 9, 2025
Poland saw much of its cultural patrimony destroyed or looted during the country’s wartime occupation by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, and about 500,000 items remain missing.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 25, 2023
Each day you crowd this house like wolves to eat away my brave son’s patrimony.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
Vocabulary lists containing patrimony
It's All in the Family
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Declaration of the Rights of Woman (1791)
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Not Your Father's Word List: Pater, Patr
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