单词 | coheiress |
释义 | coheiressn. A woman who shares an inheritance with others; a joint-heiress. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [noun] > descent by inheritance > heir > coheir > female coheir1586 coheiressa1640 a1640 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) §23 32 Nicholas..left the daughter of John his co-heiress. 1771 O. Goldsmith Hist. Eng. II. 17 One of the co-heiresses of the Crown. 1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. II. xvi. 345 The husband of the eldest co-heiress of Gloucester. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.a1640 |
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