Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Heritage; inheritance.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare Heritage; inheritance.

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  • noun archaic inheritance

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Examples

  • Barring, however, only wants her to help him assure his in heritance by participating in one more crime, a murder.

    Not the Girl Next Door Charlotte Chandler 2008

  • Barring, however, only wants her to help him assure his in heritance by participating in one more crime, a murder.

    Not the Girl Next Door Charlotte Chandler 2008

  • Barring, however, only wants her to help him assure his in heritance by participating in one more crime, a murder.

    Not the Girl Next Door Charlotte Chandler 2008

  • Barring, however, only wants her to help him assure his in heritance by participating in one more crime, a murder.

    Not the Girl Next Door Charlotte Chandler 2008

  • I also knew someone who was of Greek and German heritance I think his mother was German and his father was Greek.

    cultural schizophrenia 2005

  • A museum is only a custodian of our collective cultural heritance, and has a responsibility to make its holdings available to everyone.

    Quote for the Day 2004

  • A museum is only a custodian of our collective cultural heritance, and has a responsibility to make its holdings available to everyone.

    Archive 2004-11-01 2004

  • Several thinkers have been impressed by the predominant effect of one factor or another: Marx by the pressure of economic needs and of the current system for coping with them; Freud by the twists of emotional attitude formed in us during one helpless immaturity; Jung by the individual's in - heritance of ancestral archetypes of personal relation or function.

    FREE WILL IN THEOLOGY AUSTIN FARRER 1968

  • For the most part they grasp at aspects of their opponents 'work, such as the discovery of extrachromosomal in - heritance, or at the arguments of geneticists like

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas DAVID JORAVSKY 1968

  • The French monarch knew naught but to debauch his heritance; the French courtier intrigued and plundered; the French peasant, dogged and sullen in his long suffering, dragged out his miserable existence.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 Various

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