Word Meanings - PATRIMONY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A right or estate inherited from one's father; or, in a larger sense, from any ancestor.

• Rightless
  Destitute of right.
• FATHERINLAW
  The father of one's husband or wife; -- correlative to son-in- law and daughter-in-law. Note: A man who marries a woman having children already, is sometimes, though erroneously, called their father-in-law.
• Fatherliness
  The qualities of a father; parantal kindness, care, etc.
• Righting
  of Right
• Right-about
  A turning directly about by the right, so as to face in the opposite direction; also, the quarter directly opposite; as, to turn to the right-about.
• Right-lined
  Formed by right lines; rectilineal; as, a right-lined angle.
• FATHERLASHER
  A European marine fish (Cottus bubalis), allied to the sculpin; -- called also lucky proach.
• Father longlegs
  See Daddy longlegs, 2.
• Right-angled
  Containing a right angle or right angles; as, a right-angled triangle.
• FATHERLONGLEGS
  See Daddy longlegs, 2.
• Ancestor
  One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father.
• Fatherly
  Like a father in affection and care; paternal; tender; protecting; careful.
• Right-minded
  Having a right or honest mind.
• RIGHTABOUT
  A turning directly about by the right, so as to face in the opposite direction; also, the quarter directly opposite; as, to turn to the right-about. To send to the right-about, to cause to turn toward the opposite point or quarter; -- hence, of troops,
• Ancestorial
  Ancestral.
• Fathership
  The state of being a father; fatherhood; paternity.
• Righteous
  Doing, or according with, that which is right; yielding to all their due; just; equitable; especially, free from wrong, guilt, or sin; holy; as, a righteous man or act; a righteous retribution.
• Rightness
  Straightness; as, the rightness of a line.

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