adverb
- By reason of one's own ability or ownership etc..
- usage: "she's a rich woman in her own right rather than by inheritance"; "an excellent novel in its own right"
- synonyms: in his own right, in her own right, in its own right
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
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