单词 | heritance |
释义 | heritancen. archaic. Inheritance; heirship. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [noun] > descent by inheritance > heir > position of heritance1422 heirship1478 hereditament1510 heirdom1598 1422 tr. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. (1898) 159 Esau, for a lytill Potage solde the ryght of his herytaunce. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xix. 404 A prysoner, by whom I shall have peas, and all myn herytaunce agayne. 1566 T. Drant in E. Farr Sel. Poetry Reign Elizabeth (1845) II. 417 Our heritaunce is cut of quyte. 1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia (new ed.) 11 Our Common-Law, which is the heritance of the Kingdom. 1801 R. Southey Thalaba I. i. 20 These were my heritance, O God! thy gifts were these. 1896 ‘F. Macleod’ Sin Eater Ded. The beauty of the world, the pathos of life, the gloom, the spiritual glamour..the heritance of the Gaelic. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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