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Heirloom   /ˈɛrlˌum/   Listen
Heirloom

noun
1.
(law) any property that is considered by law or custom as inseparable from an inheritance is inherited with that inheritance.
2.
Something that has been in a family for generations.





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"Heirloom" Quotes from Famous Books



... to carry to Rolf Stake those costly things which they in his behalf should choose. These were the helmet Battleboar, and the corslet Finnsleif, which no weapon could pierce, and the gold ring called Sviagriss, an heirloom from Adils' forefathers. But the King denied them all the costly things, nor did ...
— The Red True Story Book • Various
... tendency of the Hegelian philosophy: yea, it would perhaps be no exaggeration to say that, in the subordination of all strivings after education to reasons of State, Prussia has appropriated, with success, the principle and the useful heirloom of the Hegelian philosophy, whose apotheosis of the State in this subordination certainly ...
— On the Future of our Educational Institutions • Friedrich Nietzsche


Words linked to "Heirloom" :   heritage, property, jurisprudence, belongings, holding, inheritance, law


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