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Through one's own skills or qualifications, as in He's a fine violinist in his own right , or She has a fortune in her own right . This term originally alluded to a legal title or claim, as in She was queen in her own right , but has been used more loosely since about 1600.Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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