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heritance arch.|ˈhɛrɪtəns|
[a. OF. heritance, f. hériter to inherit: see herit v.]
Inheritance; heirship. Also fig.
1422tr. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. (E.E.T.S.) 159 Esau, for a lytill Potage solde the ryght of his herytaunce. c1489Caxton Sonnes of Aymon xix. 404 A prysoner, by whom I shall have peas, and all myn herytaunce agayne. 1566Drant Wail. Hierem. in Farr S.P. Eliz. (1845) II. 417 Our heritaunce is cut of quyte. a1635Naunton Fragm. Reg. (Arb.) 23 Our Common-Law, which is the heritance of the Kingdome. 1801Southey Thalaba i. (D.), These were my heritance, O God! they gifts were these. 1896Miss Macleod Sin-Eater Ded., The beauty of the world, the pathos of life, the gloom, the spiritual glamour..the heritance of the Gael. |