patrimony
pa truh moh nee
- n a church endowment
- n an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture)
- From the outset, Spain believed that the ship was Spanish, and that the excavation therefore amounted to an attack on its historical patrimony.
- Partially sharing that opinion is the government of Galicia, which recently initiated proceedings to have the pazo declared part of the region's cultural patrimony.
- This reflects a very principled stance that Hill and his publisher have taken, a conscious decision not to milk Hill's patrimony for publicity, and which I am now helping to ruin.