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Patrimonial

Patrimonial meaning

Of or pertaining to patrimony. | Legally (or otherwise) inherited from one or more ancestors.

Example sentences (9)

Voters have rejected the patrimonial politics among the Tamil political parties that undermined popular participation.

The previous practice of building institutions based on patrimonial relationship and favoritism based on the lines of ethnic networks which are sources of rampant corruption should not be tolerated.

Main duties include the supervision of civilian reconstruction efforts, monitoring and protection of patrimonial sites, military police and medical assistance.

Namely, Hobbes wrote in The Elements of Law that Patrimonial kingdoms were not necessarily formed by the consent of the governed, while in Leviathan he argued that they were.

Ochmański (1982), pp. 62–63 The Lithuanian state maintained a patrimonial power structure.

Slovene names ending in -ič do not necessarily have a patrimonial origin.

The resistance to a closer and more permanent union was coming from Lithuania's ruling families, increasingly Polonized in cultural terms, but attached to the Lithuanian heritage and their patrimonial rule.

Tudor Monograms The Tudors also used monograms to denote themselves: Lineage and the Tudor name Patrimonial Lineage As noted above Tewdur or Tudor is derived from the words tud "territory" and rhi "king".

Two government inspectors represent the State in financial and patrimonial questions.