• (n.) 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 not so born.
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Por`phy·ro·gen'i·tism noun [ Late Latin
porphyro genitus , from Greek ...; ... purple + root of ... to be born.] 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 preferr...
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