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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Por·phy·ro·gen·i·tism 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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