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
The demonstrators, some wielding bats, appeared to be asserting the jurisdiction of the Edo people’s ceremonial king, Oba Ewuare II, over the region’s cultural patrimony.
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News Desk, Artforum, 10 Nov. 2025
For the patrimony prize, which covers jewelry remaining in a house’s patrimonial collection, Raybaud chose 2020 as the cut-off date, to allow newer signatures to take part on an equal footing to their centuries-old predecessors.
—Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2025
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.
—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
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News Desk, Artforum, 10 Nov. 2025
For the patrimony prize, which covers jewelry remaining in a house’s patrimonial collection, Raybaud chose 2020 as the cut-off date, to allow newer signatures to take part on an equal footing to their centuries-old predecessors.
—Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2025
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for patrimony
inheritance
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Their suit challenged an inheritance agreement at the electronics giant LG.—
Emma Hinchliffe,
Fortune,
18 Feb. 2026
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When families don’t openly discuss inheritance, expectations between generations can drift apart.—
Matt Emma,
USA Today,
18 Feb. 2026
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“Patrimony.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/patrimony. Accessed 25 Feb. 2026.
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