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primoˈgenitureship Now rare.
[f. prec. + -ship.]
= prec. 2.
1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. ii. 59 It is likely to proue..an immortall kinde of businesse, like vnto that of your Mayorasgos or Primo-genitureship, which your fathers settle vpon their eldest sonnes. 1762tr. Busching's Syst. Geog. IV. 156 The Emperor Frederick I..introduced into the house of Austria the right of primogenitureship. 1822J. Flint Lett. Amer. 177 Local attachments are much weakened by the open prospects of an extensive country, by the abolition of primogenitureship, and by the introduction of laws that promote family justice. 1830Examiner 259/1 A younger brother, corrupted at heart with envy by the injustice of primogenitureship. |