noun
definition
Something owed since birth, due to inheritance.
Examples of birthright in a Sentence
A dhjan's mate is bound to his people, to his birthright as he is.
But it really is no different than me thinking it is my birthright to be able to have freedom of speech.
He'd continue the war until he won back his planet and birthright by force, then find another way to heal his planet.
The land, our common birthright, is being stolen to make a small number of wealthy people even richer.
And Iacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.
Esau was the oldest and therefore the traditional heir to the family birthright.
Dar is prince by birthright who can communicate with animals, and seeks revenge on thugs who murdered the people of his village.
The birthright of Ahau is spirituality, but this is not always easy to maintain.
From the theological standpoint every individual is predestined either by his natural birthright to evil or by Divine Grace to good, and the absolute foreknowledge and omnipotence of God excludes even the possibility of any initiative on the part of the individual by means of which he might influence God's timeless choice.
Too notorious to reclaim her own birthright, Boudica strives instead to return her daughters to their heritage.
As you may have already surmised, Aries lives up to his birthright of being the first born of the zodiac.
Hamilton wrist watches hold a link to the birthright of modern America.
Destined for the church by the family council which deprived him of his birthright, he was sent when about thirteen years of age to St Sulpice, where he conceived a dislike of the doctrines and discipline thrust upon him.
He was a Scot by descent, and retained the vital energy of his ancestors as a birthright.
The men who followed it knew that they were restoring humanity to its birthright after the expatriation of ten centuries.
Like Esau, he had sold his birthright; and there was no longer any place for repentance.
A share of this was the birthright of every law-abiding member of the Feini who needed it.
Going against ourselves Like the flower, we humans have the same birthright.
No Mr. Blair - we're not going to let you sell the birthright of the British people.
Like Sadr, they claim the birthright of their own families.
Britain is about to lose that birthright of the law and with it, its nationhood.
All these skills are the natural birthright of any properly educated human being.
Yet the determination of Ulster's Loyalists to retain their British birthright has never diminished.
Its fear of the class below it now outweighed its willingness to fight for its democratic birthright.
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There was no birthright attaching to the position of eldest son, but he usually acted as executor and after considering what each had already received equalized the shares.
Napoleon Bonaparte made a comment along these lines when he stated, "Man is entitled by birthright to a share of the Earth's produce sufficient to fill the needs of his existence."