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absolute primogeniture en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) A form of primogeniture in which sex is irrelevant for inheritance; the oldest surviving child without regard to sex becomes the heir.
    • Another well-known custom, common in the northeast, is absolute primogeniture, whereby the eldest child, regardless of sex, becomes the heir. 2008, Jennifer Robertson, editor, A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 362:

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Synonyms

lineal primogeniture · equal primogeniture