heritance
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of heritance
1350–1400; Middle English herita ( u ) nce < Middle French heritance, equivalent to herit ( er ) to inherit + -ance -ance; heir
Example Sentences
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The heritance of acquired malignant characteristics would thus be defeated before it could begin.
From Time Magazine Archive
"The heritance of an acquired characteristic was no longer an unsupported theory," he said.
From Time Magazine Archive
For reasons of "in heritance and maternal feeling," un married WAC Sergeant Dorothy Libertini, 56, sought to adopt unmarried WAC Captain Frances Hagler, 35.
From Time Magazine Archive
The French monarch knew naught but to debauch his heritance; the French courtier intrigued and plundered; the French peasant, dogged and sullen in his long suffering, dragged out his miserable existence.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 by Various
They say that service is no heritance, and they says true.
From An Old Man's Love by Trollope, Anthony
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