birthright
ਜੇਠੇ
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.
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A despiser of Western religions, he was an ardent polygamist, convinced that promiscuity was man's natural '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.
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.
This was our 'birthright' as intellectuals, but to possess it we needed to withstand the terror, loneliness, and isolation inherent in intellectual life.
We also have a 'birthright' : rhetoric's role in civic education.
For the one got possession of the 'birthright' , and the other transferred the wealth of the Egyptians to the host of the Israelites.
It returns the heart and mind to its 'birthright' , naturally luminous and free.
Overall, TAU students project a sense of a 'birthright' to education that is rare at UMB.
The 'birthright' is the prerogative of the eldest son.
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.
she saw a liberal education as the 'birthright' of every child
The 'birthright' of Christian education was not stolen by skeptics and rationalists.
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?
He reminds the king that he reversed the natural order of 'birthright' when he gave his daughters the crown.
It's your natural 'birthright' , but they make you pay for it.
It is my 'birthright' , as it is everyone else's in this town.
I am a woman, possessing the softness and warmth that is my 'birthright' , and I love what I am.
This ancestral knowledge comes naturally to us; it is our 'birthright' .
Dissolving negative, harmful patterns leads toward the sense of ease, grace, lightness, freedom and good health that are every human being's natural 'birthright' .
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' .
Mary Tudor acted swiftly to reclaim her 'birthright' ; her counter coup was decisive.
But while his passage back to Asia sounds ‘natural’, considering his 'birthright' , Pascal's career choice was not so clear cut.
A generally accepted tenet of the American dream is that a high-quality education is a 'birthright' .
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.
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.
Titled Esau studies, the group chose that name explicitly to reflect the younger brother's undercutting of the older brother's 'birthright' .
Given his feats, 'birthright' , and fortunes, he concludes that he does, in fact, deserve Portia.
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.
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