appanage

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For the internal regulation of the conscience it had erected the institution of auricular confession, which by this time had become almost the exclusive appanage of the priesthood.

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The unsettled dispute about the appanage had been aggravated by the struggle over their mother's will.

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The Romans retained it for as long a period as the Phœnicians; and after being ravaged by Goths and Vandals, it was for three and a half centuries an appanage of the crown of Byzantium.

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A prince to whom an appanage has been granted.

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Dunois reconquered for them their hereditary rights, the extensive appanages of the house of Orleans.

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