porphyrogenitism

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The principle of succession in royal families, especially among the Eastern Roman emperors, by which a younger son, if born after the accession of his father to the throne, was preferred to an elder son who was born prior to it. rare,uncountable
    — The doctrine of Porphyrogenitism, congenial to popular sentiment, and not without some foundation in principle, prevailed influentially and widely in many countries.

词源

From porphyrogenite + -ism.
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