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inheritrix

American

[in-her-i-triks] / ɪnˈhɛr ɪ trɪks /

Also inheritress

noun

Law.

plural

inheritrices

a woman who inherits; heiress.

Gender

See -trix, -ess.

Etymology

Origin of inheritrix

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

Example Sentences

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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 Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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