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Definition of Inherited wealth
1. Noun. Wealth that is inherited rather than earned.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inherited Wealth
Literary usage of Inherited wealth
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Foundations of National Prosperity: Studies in the Conservation of by Richard Theodore Ely, Ralph Henry Hess, Charles Kenneth Leith, Thomas Nixon Carver (1917)
"inherited wealth. Another cause of the waste of human talent, as things now work
out, is found in the institution of inherited wealth. ..."
2. The Abolition of Inheritance by Harlan Eugene Read (1919)
"CHAPTER XVII HOW inherited wealth CAUSES INHERITED POVERTY IT is a law of evil,
as of good, that it grows stronger as it becomes more firmly established by ..."
3. College Administration by Charles Franklin Thwing (1900)
"inherited wealth, too, is frequently invested in forms of property which make but a
... inherited wealth seldom increases in that ratio in which it was ..."
4. The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature ...: A Biographical and ...by John Clark Ridpath by John Clark Ridpath (1898)
"He was the son of Jean Joseph Sue, from whom he inherited wealth. His sponsors
were Prince Eugene Beauharnais and the Empress Josephine, from the former of ..."
5. Public Finance by M. E. Robinson (1922)
"at all, of his inherited wealth, and because the amount that he left would not
increase the tax rates on his property as a whole. There would certainly be ..."
6. The Institutes of the Law of Nations: A Treatise of the Jural Relations of by James Lorimer (1883)
"inherited wealth is not the same guarantee for the qualities we have ... On the
other hand, inherited wealth is more highly prized; for of States as of ..."
7. Minutes of the ... Annual Meeting by Meeting (1903)
"Incomes of this class are represented chiefly by the rent of land and by inherited
wealth. That which one receives for the use of a piece of land, ..."
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