heritor
Americannoun
noun
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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
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
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
"Ye'll hae nae want o' thae sma' heritor creatures after ye, dame," said he, as he condescended to sit down by the blushing widow.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various
A young child have I For heritor; Too young to win forth From the house of his foes.—
From The Story of the Volsungs, (Volsunga Saga) With Excerpts from the Poetic Edda by Morris, William
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