heritor

[her-i-ter]

noun

1. inheritor.

heritor

/ ˈhɛrɪtə, ˈhɛrɪtrɪs /

noun

1. Scots law a person who inherits; inheritor

Other Word Forms

• nonheritor noun
• heritress noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of heritor¹

1375–1425; late Middle English alteration of Middle English heriter < Middle French heritier < Latin hērēditārius hereditary

Example Sentences

When a private bill goes through parliament, ordinary citizens can object to its terms - and a succession of pow "heritors" did so.

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Hemingway and Dos Passos in the first world war; Mailer, Heller, Jones and Vonnegut in the second world war; O’Brien, Herr and Marlantes in Vietnam: they’re all heritors of Bierce.

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There were some of birth and breeding, and there were daughters of the slums, heritors of their mothers' foulness.

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Here his wife was to administer love and consolation; here children were to be born, hostages to fortune, heritors of name and fame, idols upon whom can be lavished the inexhaustible treasures of love.

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A female pauper lately made a very strong and forcible appeal to the elders and heritors of a certain parish, for an advance of 4s. 6d.

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Related Words

• beneficiary 
• inheritor 
• scion 
• successor