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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Appanage of time put in your keeping For my far-off heritor to hear.
From Behind the Arras A Book of the Unseen by Meteyard, Thomas Buford
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
The chief heritor of the parish is Captain W. H. Drummond Moray of Abercairny, whose family, though old proprietors, seem never to have lived in the parish.
From Chronicles of Strathearn by Macdougall, W. B.
Among the persons drawn to Baldarroch by these occurrences were the heritor, the minister, and all the elders of the Kirk, under whose superintendence an investigation was immediately commenced.
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 by Mackay, Charles
In 1740, Mr Oliphant, as almost sole heritor, intruded the Rev. John M'Leish into the parish, in opposition to the wishes of a large majority of the people.
From Chronicles of Strathearn by Macdougall, W. B.
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