Meaning of primogenitive | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Firstborn.
2. Based on or pertaining to primogeniture.

Examples

“This left Henry de Bourbon, the Huguenot King of Navarre, as the primogenitive heir to the French throne, an eventuality the Catholic League in France was unwilling to accept.”

“The primogenitive male line is said here to carry with it possession of the state—the patrimony of the primogenitive male ancestors.”

“The system of primogenitive inheritance utterly destroys this salutary principle ; and for the following reasons:”

“If a society must be absolutely primogenitive before the word patrilineal is applied to it, then no society has ever been patrilineal.”

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