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Any right, privilege, or possession to which a person is entitled by birth, such as an estate descendible by law to an heir, or civil liberty under a free constitution; esp. the rights or inheritance of the first born.

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  1. n. Any right, privilege, or possession to which a person is entitled by birth, such as an estate descendible by law to an heir, or civil liberty under a free constitution; esp. the rights or inheritance of the first born.
  2. n. a right or privilege that you are entitled to at birth
  3. n. an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture)
  4. Any right, privilege, or possession to which a person is entitled by birth, such as an estate descendible by law to an heir, or civil liberty under a free constitution; esp. the rights or inheritance of the first born. Lest there be any . . . profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. Heb. xii. 16.
  5. Any right, privilege, or possession to which a person isentitled by birth, such as an estate descendible by law to an heir,or civil liberty under a free constitution; esp. the rights orinheritance of the first born.Lest there be any . . . profane person, as Esau, who for one morselof meat sold his birthright. Heb. xii. 16.
  6. n:100 n. a right or privilege that you are entitled to at birth n. an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture) n. personal characteristics that are inherited at birth