1 to bear

2 to support

3 to inherit

1 to undertake

2 to assume (responsibility etc)

1 to admit

2 to concede

3 to recognize

4 recognition (diplomatic, artistic etc)

5 to acknowledge

1 to promise

2 to undertake to do something

3 commitment

1 to pass on (to future generations)

2 passed on (from former times)

3 a continued tradition

4 an inheritance

1 earnestly and sincerely (idiom); devoutly

1 traceable to the same stock (idiom); of a common origin (of trends, ideas etc)

1 lit. to respond to heaven and suit the times (idiom); to rule according to the will of heaven

2 the Divine Right of kings

1 to follow the past and herald the future (idiom); part of a historical transition

2 forming a bridge between earlier and later stages

1 to follow the past and herald the future (idiom); part of a historical transition

2 forming a bridge between earlier and later stages