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n. An inheritance from a father or other ancestor.

n. An inheritance or legacy; heritage.

n. An endowment or estate belonging to an institution, especially a church.

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

n. Formerly, a church estate or endowment.

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

n. Formerly, a church estate or endowment.

n. A right or an estate inherited from one's ancestors; property falling to a person on the death of his father; heritage.

n. A church estate or revenue; the endowment of a church or religious house.

n. an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture)

n. a church endowment

"To tell these young readers that such poets are part of their "patrimony" is only another way of saying they should read poetry because it's good for them, a strategy that will only make it certain they'll never want to read a line of verse ever again."

inheritance    heritage    endowment fund    endowment   

hereditament   

matrimony   

stipend    heritage    inheritance    legacy    endowment