inheritrix
noun
a woman who inherits; heiress.
inheritress
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a variation of
inheritrix.
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a word derived from
inherit.
inheritverb (used with object)to take or receive (property, a right, a title, etc.) by succession or will, as an heir.
Example Sentences
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She should be the inheritress of this noble fortune—she should spread and widen the power of the Maulevrier race.
From Phantom Fortune, a Novel by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
Both have gone to their long home, leaving their only child inheritress of a handsome estate.
From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Mayne Reid
Thereupon he understood the rare attraction of that girl, inheritress of her father's genius, whose new-born celebrity had reached as far as his province, with the halo of a reputation for great beauty.
From The Nabob, Volume 1 by George Burnham Ives
I come to greet her whom I recognize as the inheritress of all that was lovely in my earthly being, more happy than I in her temporal state.
From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Margaret Fuller
The Dominion through her Indian officers and her mounted constabulary is showing herself the inheritress of these traditions.
From Memories of Canada and Scotland — Speeches and Verses by John Douglas Sutherland Campbell
