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Definition of Inheritresses
1. inheritress [n] - See also: inheritress
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inheritresses
Literary usage of Inheritresses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1872)
"Now I saw radiating on all sides British beauty, and I had the inward assurance
that my countrywomen were its inheritresses. ..."
2. Dissertations on Early Law and Custom: Chiefly Selected from Lectures by Henry Sumner Maine (1886)
"... by a peculiar line of succession to female inheritresses. Like all branches
of the Aryan race which remain in a condition still savouring of barbarism, ..."
3. Memoranda of a Residence at the Court of London by Richard Rush (1833)
"My own country, I believed, was destined to a just measure of the two first; and
I had the inward assurance that my countrywomen were the inheritresses of ..."
4. The Royal Dukes and Princesses of the Family of George III.: A View of Court by Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald (1882)
"My own country I believed was destined to a just measure of the two first; and
I had the inward assurance that my countrywomen were the inheritresses of the ..."
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