How to Use primogeniture in a Sentence

primogeniture

noun

• Owing to the archaic laws of primogeniture, Anne, who is now 72, has tumbled to 16th in line to the throne.
  — Simon Usborne, Town & Country, 18 Jan. 2023
• When Charles Martel died in 1295, his young son Carobert should have been next in line according to the law of primogeniture.
  — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 3 July 2018
• This is a place that values male strength and primogeniture.
  — Sean T. Collins, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2022
• Well into the 21st century British law favored male primogeniture, or that a male child has a greater right to the throne than a female child.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 23 Apr. 2018
• And there’s something about the idea of primogeniture — the eldest brother getting the estate, and everyone else has to fall in line — that didn’t feel right in the Jazz Age.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 June 2019
• Thanks to a change to the ancient rule of royal primogeniture, which was scrapped in 2011, the Cambridges’ firstborn was set to become third in line to the throne regardless of his or her gender.
  — Omid Scobie, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Jan. 2020
• For example, the United Kingdom abolished primogeniture in 2015, ahead of the birth of Prince George.
  — Diana Pearl, PEOPLE.com, 7 Feb. 2018
• Had her parents birthed a son, after her or her sister, Princess Margaret, male-preference primogeniture would have placed him as the next heir to the throne.
  — Essence, 8 Sep. 2022
• That's because she was born before a new law was passed in 2013, changing the rules for the succession so that it is based on birth order, not gender, known as male primogeniture.
  — Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 17 Sep. 2022
• For hundreds of years, the laws of succession to the British throne have followed male-preference primogeniture –placing all brothers ahead of sisters in line for the crown.
  — Kate Keller, Smithsonian, 24 Apr. 2018
• In 2013, the legal basis for the line of succession was amended to end the system of male primogeniture, which placed male heirs above their female siblings in the line of succession.
  — Audrey Schmidt, Peoplemag, 1 June 2023
• She was forced into it by her father, as a means of safeguarding primogeniture.
  — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2022
• Apart from a few royal families, primogeniture is no longer the norm in Western countries.
  — Lynn Berger, Time, 13 Apr. 2021
• The distribution system at the foundation of this is called primogeniture: the right of the eldest son (or less frequently, the eldest daughter) as heir.
  — Lynn Berger, Time, 13 Apr. 2021
• This put an end to the old-fashioned system of male preference primogeniture — where princes would take precedence over their older sisters.
  — Kate Samuelson, Time, 23 Apr. 2018
• His claim to the throne was also debated, coming down through his mother's side of the family (outside of the conventions of primogeniture).
  — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 24 May 2022
• The duchess still believes in primogeniture, or the right of succession belonging to the firstborn son, and doesn’t think that her other four children would want the burden of such an inheritance anyway.
  — Elizabeth Paton, New York Times, 11 July 2023
• It was most recently amended in 2013 to end the system of male primogeniture, which automatically placed male heirs above their sisters in the line of succession.
  — Erin Hill, PEOPLE.com, 4 Dec. 2021
• According to English laws of primogeniture, an earldom can pass only to a son or other male descendant.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
• But during his reign, Sweden’s law of absolute primogeniture was passed.
  — Madeleine Luckel, Vogue, 31 May 2018
• In the nineteen-sixties, a legal battle took place, in secret, over the claim of a Scottish transgender man, Ewan Forbes, to a baronetcy title whose succession was determined by male primogeniture.
  — The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2021
• Europeans developed primogeniture, where all went to the firstborn to preserve the family’s wealth.
  — WSJ, 26 Oct. 2016
• That act also eliminated the centuries-old practice of male primogeniture, so some future younger brother won't go before his elder sister in the royal lineup.
  — Bill Daley, chicagotribune.com, 5 May 2017
• In Russia, unlike in many parts of Western Europe, inheritance laws were based not on primogeniture but on an even distribution among children.
  — Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
• As such, sisters could be individuated in a family in a way primogeniture didn’t allow men; sisters were both teammates and competitors, against the world but also each other.
  — Sadie Stein, Town & Country, 8 Aug. 2021
• The places of King Harald's two children in the line of succession remain dictated by the male-preference cognatic primogeniture previously enforced, and the precedent was set only for those born after 1990.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 3 Jan. 2023
• The places of King Harald's two children in the line of succession remain dictated by the male-preference cognatic primogeniture previously enforced, and the precedent was set only for those born after 1990.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2023
• King Harald's children's places in the line of succession remain dictated by the male-preference primogeniture previously enforced, and the precedent was set only for those born after 1990.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 18 Nov. 2022
• Ten years before Princess Elisabeth was born in 1991, a new act of succession introduced absolute primogeniture in Belgium, meaning a daughter would not be overtaken in the line of succession in favor of a younger brother.
  — Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 5 Sep. 2023
• But his Grandpa Cudahy also believed in primogeniture, the practice of the oldest son inheriting the family business.
  — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 20 Sep 2024