heirless
- a word derived from heir.
Example Sentences
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In the past decade or so, both Kusaba and Kojima have seen at least one factory quietly close every year as ageing owners die, fall ill or shut down their heirless businesses.
From Reuters • Aug. 21, 2022
They urged the heirless Snyder to decide what pieces should go where upon his death.
From Washington Times • Mar. 14, 2015
When he died, he left his queens devastated and his kingdom heirless.
From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2013
You know, dinner parties, table placements, debutants, an heirless toff in search of a second wife, an educated and pretty but penniless young woman holding out for true love ...
From The Guardian • Dec. 16, 2012
Hitherto life-owners of land, holding as subtenants, had possessed large powers of alienating it, to the detriment of their superior lords, who would otherwise have recovered it, when their vassals died heirless, as an “escheat.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History by Various
