birthrightn.

Brit.

/ˈbəːθrʌɪt/, U.S.

/ˈbərθˌraɪt/

Forms: see birth n.¹ and right n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: birth n.¹, right n.

Etymology: < birth n.¹ + right n.

1. The rights, privileges, or possessions to which a person is entitled by birth, esp. as an eldest son; inheritance, patrimony. Also with to a specified right, privilege, or possession. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > [noun] > hereditary > right by birth or birthright

i-cundelOE

kindc1300

forbirtha1400

birthright1530

inheritance1535

birthdoma1616

birthhood1651

1530 Bible (Tyndale) Gen. xxv. f. xxxiiij^v And Jacob sayde: sell me this daye thy byrthrighte.

1594 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 ii. ii. 62 Be we the first to honor him with birthright to the Crown.

1684 R. Waller tr. Ess. Nat. Exper. Acad. del Cimento Pref. sig. a3 Among all the Creatures of Divine Wisdom, the Birthright [It. primogenita] doubtless belongs to the Idea of Truth.

1718 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad IV. xv. 185 Our elder Birthright, and superior Sway.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 445 The prince whom a faction..had tried to rob of his birthright.

1950 H. Gibbs Twilight in S. Afr. 125 In 1832 news comes that Crown lands..must be sold by auction. To..Boers, Afrikaner farmers, it means they must pay for what they had believed their birthright.

2007 E. Smith & N. Brown Compl. Idiot's Guide World Mythol. iii. 190 Hlod returns to Hunland and explains to his grandfather King Humli that Angantyr has refused to surrender to him his birthright.

2. A right, privilege, or possession considered as belonging to people of a particular nation, community, etc., or as inherent in a particular activity or role.Often humorously with reference to a stereotypical characteristic of the people in question.

ΚΠ

1589 T. Nashe Anat. Absurditie Ep. Ded. sig. ¶iiii The fourth..would needes maintaine, that the onely adiuncts of a Courtier, were schollership and courage, returning..Citterning and Luting, to the birthright of euerie sixe pennie slaue, and..dauncing & reuelling, to euerie Taylors holie day humour.

1628 Bp. H. King Expos. Lords Prayer 155 Honesty, now a daies so dis-esteem'd and out of fashion, that 'tis held only the Birth-right of Fooles.

a1721 W. Moyle Wks. (1727) 240 'Tis generously done of you to assert the English Birthright of Whoring so nobly, you who represent the head Quarters of intrigue, the University.

1804 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 7 Apr. 489 He has refused it [sc. inquiry] himself to officers who claimed it as their birthright.

1880 Bell's Life in London 17 Jan. 4/4 Something would require to be done to stop tedious mauling, shoving, and the inevitable draw, which then formed the birthright of Rugby football.

1989 Life Autumn 64/4 (caption) A cholesterol counter's nightmare was the type of hearty breakfast that seemed an American birthright.

2006 G. Malkani Londonstani iv. 41 Havin the blingest mobile fone in the house is a rudeboy's birthright.

3. A natural or moral right, that is or should be possessed by everyone; an entitlement. Also with to.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > dueness or propriety > [noun] > right or moral entitlement > native

mother-right?a1607

birthrighta1643

natural right1647

a1643 D. Digges Vnlawfulnesse Subj. Taking Armes against Soveraigne (1644) 2 Freedome is the birth-right of mankinde.

1719 W. Wood Surv. Trade (ed. 2) 296 Freedom of Trade is their undoubted Birth-right.

1874 F. W. Farrar Silence & Voices of God viii. 136 Work is the best birthright which man still retains.

1930 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 151 156/2 Every child has a birthright to parental love.

2015 Daily Tel. 21 May 2/1 The decent education that should be a birthright in our country.

Compounds

C1. As a modifier, with the sense ‘of, relating to, or deriving from a person's birthright’.

ΚΠ

1607 G. Markham First Pt. First Bk. Eng. Arcadia f. 24 So well setled a countenance, as shewed Maiestie to bee the birth-right inheritance of a royal discent.

1752 A. Murphy Gray's Inn Jrnl. No. 3 (1756) Should any such Attempts be made upon the Birth-right Privileges of an Englishman, I shall then be as warm a Patriot as the best of them.

1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake ii. 58 In Scotland's court, thy birth-right place.

1961 W. Brandon Indians (1987) iii. 79 She spoke Nahuatl as a birthright tongue, and in Tabasco she had learned the border Maya dialect known as Chontal.

2013 S. C. Walker Illuminating Humor of Bible iii. 52 Every single oldest son mentioned in Genesis..gets bereft of both familial blessing and the anticipated double portion of birthright wealth.

C2. As a modifier.

a. Quakerism. Designating a person born to a member or members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) (who thus automatically becomes a member of the Society), as opposed to one who converts to Quakerism.Contrasted with by convincement: cf. convincement n. 4.

ΚΠ

1822 Acct. Trial J. Edwards of N.-Y. 6 I was a Quaker in principle..which I now consider as being far superior to that of a mere nominal birthright Quaker.

1897 J. M. DeGarmo Hicksite Quakers & Doctr. ii. 29 If one parent only is a member, the child, with the consent of both parents, becomes a birthright member.

1974 S. Ellin Stronghold (2014) (e-book ed.) He did not, I was irritably grateful to observe, go as far as some Quakers by convincement and suggest that birthright Quakers are not quite up to snuff.

2006 Patriot Ledger (Quincy, Mass.) (Nexis) 10 Oct. i. 12 Stokes, a birthright Friend, grew up among the plain-speaking Quakers.

b. More generally: designating a person born into a specified faith, occupation, etc.

ΚΠ

1871 Independent (N.Y.) 13 Apr. 4/2 We remember once asking a French gentleman of great intelligence and liberality of views, though a birthright Catholic, whether he regarded the system of education pursued by the Jesuits..as a good one.

1988 J. McPhee Control of Nature (1989) 153 Ronald Hanatani..is a native of Hawaii, and is therefore, like an Icelander, a birthright volcanologist.

1995 Daily Mail 6 June 30/2 Joseph Delmont, a birthright Cockney, had travelled to southern Africa from England in the 1870s.

2014 S. J. Mendel Hineni (e-book, accessed 23 Aug. 2019) As a birthright Jew, open caskets and embalming were foreign to me.

C3.

birthright citizenship n. chiefly U.S. a legal right to citizenship for all children born in a country's territory, regardless of parentage.

ΚΠ

1865 T. Lewis State Rights 24 That original birthright citizenship..made the states, the nation, and the union, as all alike one harmonious indivisible work.

2017 N. Flores-González Citizens but not Americans v. 126 These youths..point to their birthright citizenship as incontrovertible proof of their Americanness.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	birthright
释义	birthrightn. Brit. /ˈbəːθrʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈbərθˌraɪt/ Forms: see birth n.¹ and right n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: birth n.¹, right n. Etymology: < birth n.¹ + right n. 1. The rights, privileges, or possessions to which a person is entitled by birth, esp. as an eldest son; inheritance, patrimony. Also with to a specified right, privilege, or possession. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > [noun] > hereditary > right by birth or birthright i-cundelOE kindc1300 forbirtha1400 birthright1530 inheritance1535 birthdoma1616 birthhood1651 1530 Bible (Tyndale) Gen. xxv. f. xxxiiij^v And Jacob sayde: sell me this daye thy byrthrighte. 1594 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 ii. ii. 62 Be we the first to honor him with birthright to the Crown. 1684 R. Waller tr. Ess. Nat. Exper. Acad. del Cimento Pref. sig. a3 Among all the Creatures of Divine Wisdom, the Birthright [It. primogenita] doubtless belongs to the Idea of Truth. 1718 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad IV. xv. 185 Our elder Birthright, and superior Sway. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 445 The prince whom a faction..had tried to rob of his birthright. 1950 H. Gibbs Twilight in S. Afr. 125 In 1832 news comes that Crown lands..must be sold by auction. To..Boers, Afrikaner farmers, it means they must pay for what they had believed their birthright. 2007 E. Smith & N. Brown Compl. Idiot's Guide World Mythol. iii. 190 Hlod returns to Hunland and explains to his grandfather King Humli that Angantyr has refused to surrender to him his birthright. 2. A right, privilege, or possession considered as belonging to people of a particular nation, community, etc., or as inherent in a particular activity or role.Often humorously with reference to a stereotypical characteristic of the people in question. ΚΠ 1589 T. Nashe Anat. Absurditie Ep. Ded. sig. ¶iiii The fourth..would needes maintaine, that the onely adiuncts of a Courtier, were schollership and courage, returning..Citterning and Luting, to the birthright of euerie sixe pennie slaue, and..dauncing & reuelling, to euerie Taylors holie day humour. 1628 Bp. H. King Expos. Lords Prayer 155 Honesty, now a daies so dis-esteem'd and out of fashion, that 'tis held only the Birth-right of Fooles. a1721 W. Moyle Wks. (1727) 240 'Tis generously done of you to assert the English Birthright of Whoring so nobly, you who represent the head Quarters of intrigue, the University. 1804 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 7 Apr. 489 He has refused it [sc. inquiry] himself to officers who claimed it as their birthright. 1880 Bell's Life in London 17 Jan. 4/4 Something would require to be done to stop tedious mauling, shoving, and the inevitable draw, which then formed the birthright of Rugby football. 1989 Life Autumn 64/4 (caption) A cholesterol counter's nightmare was the type of hearty breakfast that seemed an American birthright. 2006 G. Malkani Londonstani iv. 41 Havin the blingest mobile fone in the house is a rudeboy's birthright. 3. A natural or moral right, that is or should be possessed by everyone; an entitlement. Also with to. ΘΚΠ society > morality > dueness or propriety > [noun] > right or moral entitlement > native mother-right?a1607 birthrighta1643 natural right1647 a1643 D. Digges Vnlawfulnesse Subj. Taking Armes against Soveraigne (1644) 2 Freedome is the birth-right of mankinde. 1719 W. Wood Surv. Trade (ed. 2) 296 Freedom of Trade is their undoubted Birth-right. 1874 F. W. Farrar Silence & Voices of God viii. 136 Work is the best birthright which man still retains. 1930 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 151 156/2 Every child has a birthright to parental love. 2015 Daily Tel. 21 May 2/1 The decent education that should be a birthright in our country. Compounds C1. As a modifier, with the sense ‘of, relating to, or deriving from a person's birthright’. ΚΠ 1607 G. Markham First Pt. First Bk. Eng. Arcadia f. 24 So well setled a countenance, as shewed Maiestie to bee the birth-right inheritance of a royal discent. 1752 A. Murphy Gray's Inn Jrnl. No. 3 (1756) Should any such Attempts be made upon the Birth-right Privileges of an Englishman, I shall then be as warm a Patriot as the best of them. 1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake ii. 58 In Scotland's court, thy birth-right place. 1961 W. Brandon Indians (1987) iii. 79 She spoke Nahuatl as a birthright tongue, and in Tabasco she had learned the border Maya dialect known as Chontal. 2013 S. C. Walker Illuminating Humor of Bible iii. 52 Every single oldest son mentioned in Genesis..gets bereft of both familial blessing and the anticipated double portion of birthright wealth. C2. As a modifier. a. Quakerism. Designating a person born to a member or members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) (who thus automatically becomes a member of the Society), as opposed to one who converts to Quakerism.Contrasted with by convincement: cf. convincement n. 4. ΚΠ 1822 Acct. Trial J. Edwards of N.-Y. 6 I was a Quaker in principle..which I now consider as being far superior to that of a mere nominal birthright Quaker. 1897 J. M. DeGarmo Hicksite Quakers & Doctr. ii. 29 If one parent only is a member, the child, with the consent of both parents, becomes a birthright member. 1974 S. Ellin Stronghold (2014) (e-book ed.) He did not, I was irritably grateful to observe, go as far as some Quakers by convincement and suggest that birthright Quakers are not quite up to snuff. 2006 Patriot Ledger (Quincy, Mass.) (Nexis) 10 Oct. i. 12 Stokes, a birthright Friend, grew up among the plain-speaking Quakers. b. More generally: designating a person born into a specified faith, occupation, etc. ΚΠ 1871 Independent (N.Y.) 13 Apr. 4/2 We remember once asking a French gentleman of great intelligence and liberality of views, though a birthright Catholic, whether he regarded the system of education pursued by the Jesuits..as a good one. 1988 J. McPhee Control of Nature (1989) 153 Ronald Hanatani..is a native of Hawaii, and is therefore, like an Icelander, a birthright volcanologist. 1995 Daily Mail 6 June 30/2 Joseph Delmont, a birthright Cockney, had travelled to southern Africa from England in the 1870s. 2014 S. J. Mendel Hineni (e-book, accessed 23 Aug. 2019) As a birthright Jew, open caskets and embalming were foreign to me. C3. birthright citizenship n. chiefly U.S. a legal right to citizenship for all children born in a country's territory, regardless of parentage. ΚΠ 1865 T. Lewis State Rights 24 That original birthright citizenship..made the states, the nation, and the union, as all alike one harmonious indivisible work. 2017 N. Flores-González Citizens but not Americans v. 126 These youths..point to their birthright citizenship as incontrovertible proof of their Americanness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1530
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