as in inheritance
something that is or may be inherited
her patrimony was the family's newspaper business
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Recent Examples of patrimony
It’s been a long, brutal, wildly partisan, and wholly unlikely slog to get here, but Shari Redstone finally gets to preserve her family fortune by selling her patrimony, the media empire laboriously assembled by father Sumner, for about $8.5 billion and goodness knows how much cortisol and angst.
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David Bloom, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
But in times of war is not the root of the problem with Article 2 any more than the word patrimony is.
—Kamila Shamsie
june 20, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025
Only about one-fifth are rented at fair market value, according to the annual report from the APSA patrimony office, which manages them.
—Nicole Winfield, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2025
In these words, Peter, asked by the Master, together with the other disciples, about his faith in him, expressed the patrimony that the Church, through the apostolic succession, has preserved, deepened and handed on for two thousand years.
—Daniel Burke, NPR, 9 May 2025
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David Bloom, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
But in times of war is not the root of the problem with Article 2 any more than the word patrimony is.
—Kamila Shamsie
june 20, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025
Only about one-fifth are rented at fair market value, according to the annual report from the APSA patrimony office, which manages them.
—Nicole Winfield, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2025
In these words, Peter, asked by the Master, together with the other disciples, about his faith in him, expressed the patrimony that the Church, through the apostolic succession, has preserved, deepened and handed on for two thousand years.
—Daniel Burke, NPR, 9 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for patrimony
inheritance
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Built by award-winning creatives and filmmakers, the studio serves as a radical act of love — honoring the elders who dreamed, labored, loved, and survived so future generations can claim their inheritance.—
TIME PR,
Time,
27 Jan. 2026
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The nation was to be purged of continual sin not indeed all of its own doing—due partly to its inheritance; and yet a sin, a negation that gave the world the right to sneer at the pretensions of this republic.—
James Folta,
Literary Hub,
23 Jan. 2026
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“Patrimony.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/patrimony. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.
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