heritance

[her-i-tns]

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noun Archaic.

inheritance.

Origin of heritance

1350–1400; Middle English herita(u)nce < Middle French heritance, equivalent to herit(er) to inherit + -ance -ance; see heir

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Related Words for heritance

legacy, bequest, estate, heritage, right, custom, culture, ancestry, tradition, devise, birthright, heirloom, gift, primogeniture, parentage, lineage, descent, genealogy, extraction, station

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Historical Examples of heritance

Only he had the good sense to die before he had spent all his heritance.
The White Plumes of Navarre
Samuel Rutherford Crockett
My mother, who died at sea when I was born, gave me a heritance with winds and waves and stars.
Semiramis and Other Plays
Olive Tilford Dargan