Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An inheritor.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Scots law, the proprietor of a heritable subject; a proprietor or landholder in a parish.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Scot. A proprietor or landholder in a parish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who
inherits ; anheir orheiress - noun Scotland A
proprietor orlandholder in aparish .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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David being a virtuoso in his own way, and moreover a landholder and heritor, was a qualified judge of all who frequented his house, and therefore I could not avoid again tying the strings of my knees.
The Monastery 2008
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But for my sake I will make you heritor of the line Khemara, and to this linehold and all its property; and the price is that you will be Khemara and forget that you ever were Rustazh.
The Final Reflection John M. Ford 2000
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She was the heritor of lawless, self-willed, passionate ancestors.
A Man Four-Square William MacLeod Raine 1912
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For though she was heritor of a life full-blooded and undisciplined, every fiber of her was clean and pure.
A Man Four-Square William MacLeod Raine 1912
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If the Buddha appears in the family of a rich prince, it could result in the elevation of a family that would not yield obedience to the clergy (and such has happened in the past), while on the other hand any poor, unknown family that becomes the heritor of the throne of Jenghiz Khan acquires riches and is readily submissive to the Lamas.
Beasts, Men and Gods Ferdinand Ossendowski 1910
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MacGregor --- I carena wha kens it --- And Rob had soon a gallant band; and as it grieved him (he said) to see sic hership and waste and depredation to the south o 'the Hieland line, why, if ony heritor or farmer wad pay him four punds Scots out of each hundred punds of valued rent, whilk was doubtless a moderate consideration, Rob engaged to keep them scaithless;
Rob Roy 1887
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While the heritor of the right it would have saved her soul to know!
Late Lyrics and Earlier : with Many Other Verses Thomas Hardy 1884
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It was a gift to the church by a highly-respected heritor of the parish, and bears this inscription: --
Chronicles of Strathearn John Hunter 1883
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In 1740, Mr Oliphant, as almost sole heritor, intruded the
Chronicles of Strathearn John Hunter 1883
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The chief heritor of the parish is Captain W.H. Drummond Moray of
Chronicles of Strathearn John Hunter 1883
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