Noun
A right or estate inherited from one's father; or, in a larger sense, from any ancestor.
Source: Webster's dictionary“ASUU wrote petitions to anti-corruption agencies on these VCs but got no results, which makes us to believe they are working with the ruling class to destroy common patrimony. Source: Internet
But there's already been a backlash, with Carmen Vásquez, Colombia's culture minister, blaming the Misak for "violent acts" against the nation's cultural patrimony. Source: Internet
Back from the Neolithic, period from which many settlements remain, up to nowadays, in the last decades Alghero has become a touristic main point not only because of its coast and natural beauties but also because of a fairly well preserved patrimony. Source: Internet
Francis of Assisi breaking off his relationship with his father and renouncing his patrimony, laying aside publicly even the garments he had received from him. Source: Internet
In 1384, Jogaila reconciled with Vytautas promising to return his patrimony in Trakai. Source: Internet
James popularized the term "pragmatism", giving Peirce full credit for its patrimony, but Peirce later demurred from the tangents that the movement was taking, and redubbed what he regarded as the original idea with the name of "pragmaticism". Source: Internet