BIRTHRIGHT
birthright
(noun) personal characteristics that are inherited at birth
birthright
(noun) a right or privilege that you are entitled to at birth; “free public education is the birthright of every American child”
birthright, patrimony
(noun) an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
birthright (plural birthrights)
Something owed since birth, due to inheritance.
Source: Wiktionary
Birth"right`, n.
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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HABIT
(noun) (psychology) an automatic pattern of behavior in reaction to a specific situation; may be inherited or acquired through frequent repetition; “owls have nocturnal habits”; “she had a habit twirling the ends of her hair”; “long use had hardened him to it”
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