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Webster 1913 Edition

Birthright

Birth′rightˊ

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Noun.
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
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Heb. xii. 16.

Webster 1828 Edition

Birthright

BIRTH'RIGHT

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Noun.
[birth and right.] Any right or privilege, 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.
Esau, for a morsel, sold his birthright. Heb.12.
It may be used in the sense of primogeniture,or the privilege of the first born, but is applicable to any right which results from descent.

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