birthright
Direito de nascimento
definition
noun
Being the good brother he is, Jacob offers Esau some lentil soup - on one condition: Esau has to forgo his birthright and inheritance as eldest son.
a particular right of possession or privilege one has from birth, especially as an eldest child.
translation of 'birthright'
noun
patrimônio,
direito de nascimento
example
The 'birthright' of Christian education was not stolen by skeptics and rationalists.
Titled Esau studies, the group chose that name explicitly to reflect the younger brother's undercutting of the older brother's 'birthright' .
The book is divided into sections and he deals with the various geographic regions, the monarchy, Buddhism, the life of the people and how it encompasses 'birthright' , education, food, fun, death and doctors.
We will put a stop to Labour's politics of envy and give to tenants in London what is every other tenant's 'birthright' and reinstate the right to buy.
Notwithstanding the lack of paternal approval, Freeda George Foreman appears to have every chance of cashing in on her 'birthright' because apart from Ali and Frazier, there are a host of other familiar names floating around female boxing.
Being the good brother he is, Jacob offers Esau some lentil soup - on one condition: Esau has to forgo his 'birthright' and inheritance as eldest son.
Overall, TAU students project a sense of a 'birthright' to education that is rare at UMB.
she saw a liberal education as the 'birthright' of every child
For example, Talmudic law distinguishes individuals by both 'birthright' and ritual purity.
We also have a 'birthright' : rhetoric's role in civic education.
Rather, in this character test, Esau has denigrated the 'birthright' and has proven himself unworthy of its privileges and obligations.
The Middle Kingdom was established on the principle that those who are of lower rank and wish to better themselves can do so by means of great deeds and accomplishments rather than by 'birthright' .
But while his passage back to Asia sounds ‘natural’, considering his 'birthright' , Pascal's career choice was not so clear cut.
Dissolving negative, harmful patterns leads toward the sense of ease, grace, lightness, freedom and good health that are every human being's natural 'birthright' .
Winning national championships is not their 'birthright' , and everyone's going to survive if Duke were to somehow have a few back-to-back 15-loss seasons.
Every human being has a natural 'birthright' of having access to natural resources such as water.
It is by now, they feel, a simple 'birthright' , as natural as the air they breathe.
Given his feats, 'birthright' , and fortunes, he concludes that he does, in fact, deserve Portia.
I am a woman, possessing the softness and warmth that is my 'birthright' , and I love what I am.
Once mollified, they are possessed once again of that calm which is their 'birthright' , their black gaze deep.
You know, you learn how to do justice by looking at examples of injustice - Cain killing his brother Abel, Jacob cheating his father and his brother about his 'birthright' and then being cheated.
A generally accepted tenet of the American dream is that a high-quality education is a 'birthright' .
This was our 'birthright' as intellectuals, but to possess it we needed to withstand the terror, loneliness, and isolation inherent in intellectual life.
Which will leave hundreds of thousands of football fans deprived of their natural 'birthright' : when in doubt, blame the ref.
It is my 'birthright' , as it is everyone else's in this town.
It's your natural 'birthright' , but they make you pay for it.
For the one got possession of the 'birthright' , and the other transferred the wealth of the Egyptians to the host of the Israelites.
They just want you to have what's rightfully yours: your 'birthright' , your homeland, free from those whose ‘biological, genetic and evolutionary ancestry’ is inferior to yours.
He reminds the king that he reversed the natural order of 'birthright' when he gave his daughters the crown.
Or will they instead, like so many lambs led willingly to the slaughter, allow themselves to be demutualised - like Esau in the Bible surrender their 'birthright' for a mess of pottage?
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