apanage
Americannoun
noun
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Religious belief seems to be the apanage of the Royalist party, and other people think they make a show of Republicanism by throwing over the belief of the Royalists.
From Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society by Jack Allyn
"D'you think she'll remain your apanage now?" he asked, with a hint of smiling sarcasm that could not hurt her.
From In the Wilderness by Robert Smythe Hichens
Thus the kings in granting a duchy or countship as an apanage to their brothers or sons used the phrase in comitatum et baroniam.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various
Conjoined for the short potential remainder of his own life; and then to be disposed of as an apanage again;—which latter operation, as Johann George had three-and-twenty children, could be no difficult one.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 03 by Thomas Carlyle
Nor must we pass by the proof, which the journey of the Chinese travellers affords, that, what may be called missionary zeal is not an apanage of Christianity alone.
From Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities by Thomas Inman
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