patrimonies

• plural of patrimony.

Example Sentences

India and China placed their cultural patrimonies in lockdown, where they have stayed, with China now aggressively buying back art from abroad.

From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2011

Johnson's double vision makes him a formidable competitor and one of those rare sons who increase exponentially the patrimonies of their fathers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their only efforts are to increase their convents, taking away from the bishops the benefices and patrimonies which your Majesty has given them.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 25 of 55 1635-36 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander

Were it not so, would Anaxagoras, or this very Democritus, have left their estates and patrimonies, and given themselves up to the pursuit of acquiring this divine pleasure?

From The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero by Yonge, Charles Duke

To suspend our opinion in this case, would be to balance our lives, our liberties, our patrimonies, and our posterity, against thirty thousand pounds.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 10 Parlimentary Debates I by Johnson, Samuel

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