inheritrix
Americannoun
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inheritrices
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Etymology
Origin of inheritrix
First recorded in 1475–85; inheri(tor) + -trix
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Her unswerving creed was that woman was the inheritrix of the earth, the reversion of which she had wilfully mortgaged to an alien race, and that she had bartered her material immortality for a sensation.
From At a Winter's Fire by Bernard Edward Joseph Capes
You are worthy to be the inheritrix of all I know.
From The Golden Dog by William Kirby
"It means," said the lawyer, "that Mrs. Brownlow has discovered a will of the late Mr. Barnes more recent than that under which she inherited, naming you, Miss Elvira Menella, as the sole inheritrix."
From Magnum Bonum by Charlotte Mary Yonge
George More tells us that Mrs. Starchie was an "inheritrix."
From A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 by Wallace Notestein
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