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In the 21st century, son preference has been broadly documented in South and East Asia, [3] but is also observable in Western countries. [5] An example of son preference is demonstrated by the traditions of the Igbo people of Nigeria: "The status of a man is assessed in part by his number of sons. A man with many sons is viewed as a wealthy or ...
Polysemy (/ p ə ˈ l ɪ s ɪ m i / or / ˈ p ɒ l ɪ ˌ s iː m i /; [1] [2] from Ancient Greek πολύ-(polý-) ' many ' and σῆμα (sêma) ' sign ') is the capacity for a sign (e.g. a symbol, a morpheme, a word, or a phrase) to have multiple related meanings. For example, a word can have several word senses. [3]
Sons of Rhea Silvia by either the god Mars, or by the demi-god Hercules. Eurytus and Cteatus - Sons of Molione either by Actor or Poseidon; Ascalaphus and Ialmenus - Sons of Ares and Astyoche, Argonauts who participated in the Trojan War. Mortal Byblis and Caunus - Children of King Miletus and Tragasia. Kleobis and Biton - Sons of a Hera ...
The parent may have sole custody of the children, or separated parents may have a shared-parenting arrangement where the children divide their time (possibly equally) between two different single-parent families or between one single-parent family and one blended family. As compared to sole custody, physical, mental and social well-being of ...
The tradition of a father naming his son after himself or a male relative from an earlier generation (grandfather, great-grandfather) is referred to as 'patronymic', while the tradition of a mother naming her daughter after herself or a female relative from an earlier generation (grandmother, great-grandmother) is referred to as 'matronymic'.
she has no brothers, [1] or; all her brothers die without sons or daughters.: [2] She is an heiress in her issue if she dies having children and the line of her brothers becomes extinct, that is, all brothers and their children have died. [2] Illegitimate women who are armigers are also regarded as heiresses, even if they also have brothers.
After they inherited, since the title could not be held by two people simultaneously, two daughters (without a brother) who inherited in this way would do so as co-parceners. In these circumstances, the title would in fact be held in abeyance until one of them renounced for herself and her successors in favour of the other, or the entire estate ...
The typical result of a hendiadys is to transform a noun-plus-adjective into two nouns joined by a conjunction. For example, sound and fury (from act V, scene 5 of Macbeth) seems to offer a more striking image than "furious sound". In this example, as typically, the subordinate idea originally present in the adjective is transformed into a noun ...