agnatic in a sentence
Examples
- He was the first male member of his agnatic house to rise to great prominence in his country.
- Traditionally, the agnatic sibling group of a community constituted the most important level of decision-making.
- In its origin, therefore, the agnatic principle was limited to the succession to the crown of France.
- Lastly, there was yet a more junior agnatic branch that was eligible to succeed in Schleswig-Holstein.
- Its agnatic line became extinct in Poland with the death of King John II Casimir of Poland in 1672.
- An agnatic relative of William III, Tiburge d'Orange, who married into the des Baux family)
- Those two forms of monarchy ( agnatic seniority and elective monarchy ) were mostly used in the same centuries.
- Mary I succeeded to the Scottish throne only because there were no legitimate male agnatic descendants of Robert II.
- The House of Valois had secured the principle of agnatic succession following their victory in the Hundred Years War.
- The emperor's position, unless deposed in a rebellion, was always hereditary, usually by agnatic primogeniture.