survivern.1
Now rare or Obsolete.
= survivor n.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > continuance or tenacity of life > [noun] > survivor
overlivera1425
superviver1523
supervivanta1575
outliver1580
remnant1597
relicts1598
surviver1604
survivor1624
survivoressa1711
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. ii. 90 The Suruiuer bound In filiall obligation..To doe obsequious sorrowe. View more context for this quotation
1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. ii. 62 There is the like mutuall bond of love betweene Turtles, for if one of them die, the surviver never solicites Hymen more.
1726 in Minutes of Evid. Nairne Peerage (1873) 35 in Sessional Papers House of Lords (H.L. A) XII. 65 Nor shall any part of the deceasers patrimonies accress to the survivers.
1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan III. xxxii. 201 The surviver is George.
Derivatives
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the world > life > source or principle of life > continuance or tenacity of life > [noun]
lifeOE
livingc1350
existence1583
survival1598
survivancea1623
survivership1638
supervivency1659
vivaciousnessa1661
vivacity1663
survivorship1697
surviving1818
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 271 Seleuchus Callynicus sonne to Antiochus Theos by survivership (after long stormes) seeming to steare in that unruly Ocean.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > continuance or tenacity of life > [noun] > survivor > collectively
surviverya1679
survivorship1867
a1679 R. Rich Epist. to Seven Churches (1680) 90 When the Irish had murdered two hundred thousand, they little thought that they had but excited the Survivery to a terrible Revenge.
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† survivern.2
Obsolete.
= survivorship n.
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > [noun] > of survivor
surviver1528
superviver1542
survivorshipa1625
survivancy1659
survivancec1674
the world > life > source or principle of life > continuance or tenacity of life > [noun] > survivor > in legal terms > survivorship
surviver1528
superviver1542
1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. xxiiv They shall haue this by dyscent & not by the suruyuour as Ioyntenauntes haue.
1583 in East Anglian Apr. (1910) 249 By survivor sole seysed of and in the said Mannor.
1602 W. Warner Epitome Hist. Eng. in Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) 380 Iohn of Gaunt, by birth the fourth, by suruiuor the second Sonne of Edward the third.
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