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Definition of Inheritors
1. inheritor [n] - See also: inheritor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inheritors
Literary usage of Inheritors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Religious Thought in England, from the Reformation to the End of Last by John Hunt (1870)
"inheritors' was explained to mean the same as ' heirs.' The words. ' generally
necessary to salvation,' were said to be a reason of the answer why there are ..."
2. Shakespere's Predecessors in the English Drama by John Addington Symonds (1884)
"English Poetry—Mr. M. Arnold on Literatures of Genius and Intelligence—The
inheritors of Elizabethan Poetry.—XVIII. Unimpeded Freedom of Development—Absence ..."
3. The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy by Ordericus Vitalis, Léopold Delisle, Guizot (François) (1854)
"... and, on the petition of the monks, released what Geoffrey had given from al]
services ; so that whether the inheritors of Marcq did their fealty, ..."
4. The Ancient Laws of Wales: Viewed Especially in Regard to the Light They by Hubert Lewis (1889)
"Rights of Succession between Co-inheritors. — Marriage : Forma! or Legitimate;
Clandestine or Private. — Divorce : Dues and Fees. ..."
5. Mental and Moral Heredity in Royalty: A Statistical Study in History and by Frederick Adams Woods (1906)
"The inheritors of the succession are no more plentiful in the higher grades than
in the lower. The figures below show the number in each grade who came into ..."
6. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the by Richard Hakluyt (1905)
"The dramatists and poets were the children and inheritors of the Voyagers.
Man's imagination is limited by the horizon of his Tie new experience. ..."