inheritrix

American  

[in-her-i-triks] / ɪnˈhɛr ɪ trɪks /

Also inheritress

noun

Law.

plural

inheritrices

1. a woman who inherits; heiress.

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Gender

See -trix, -ess.

Etymology

Origin of inheritrix

First recorded in 1475–85; inheri(tor) + -trix

Example Sentences

You are worthy to be the inheritrix of all I know.

From The Golden Dog by Kirby, William

"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 Yonge, Charlotte Mary

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 Capes, Bernard Edward Joseph

George More tells us that Mrs. Starchie was an "inheritrix."

From A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 by Notestein, Wallace