appanage

Example Sentences

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Although the hereditary title of Count was the appanage of this rank, he never took it up.

From Victor Hugo: His Life and Works by Smith, G. Barnett

A systematic appeal to the deeper powers in man—conceived with the generality with which I have here conceived it—cannot remain a mere appanage of medical practice.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

It was made an independent comt� of itself in 1569, and in 1663 became definitely an appanage of Orleans.

From Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)

Even the Papacy, the only stable power, had become the appanage of a Roman family.

From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Sedgwick, Henry Dwight

Thus I know that the boy is not, as our minor humorists would have us believe, a mere flourish and gaudy appanage to the plumber's autocratically assumed grandeur.

From The Comforts of Home by Bergengren, Ralph