heritor
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- heritress noun
- nonheritor noun
Etymology
Origin of heritor
1375–1425; late Middle English alteration of Middle English heriter < Middle French heritier < Latin hērēditārius hereditary
Example Sentences
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"Say rather in your power, dame Shirley!" rejoined he, determined to cut out the Linton heritor by one bold stroke.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various
If I quit this bright and glorious scene, without thought and gratitude to that Being who, I humbly trust, has made me an heritor of still greater things, I offend wittingly and without hope.
From The Red Rover by Cooper, James Fenimore
An old heritor once said to me that the only thing that really roused the devil in a Scotsman's heart was trespassing on his ecclesiastical allotment.'
From Victory out of Ruin by Maclean, Norman
A new call in 1769 was signed neither by heritor, elder, or head of family.
From Chronicles of Strathearn by Macdougall, W. B.
For though she was heritor of a life full-blooded and undisciplined, every fiber of her was clean and pure.
From A Man Four-Square by Raine, William MacLeod
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