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Heritor   Listen
noun
Heritor  n.  A proprietor or landholder in a parish. (Scot.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Heritor" Quotes from Famous Books



... very few of Paddy Mulligan's scholars without a choice collection of such cudgels, and scarcely one who had not, before his fifteenth year, a just claim to be called the hero of a hundred fights, and the heritor of as many bumps on the cranium as would strike both Gall and ...
— The Station; The Party Fight And Funeral; The Lough Derg Pilgrim • William Carleton

... reverent solemnity in the act of benediction. Hermiston pew was a little square box, dwarfish in proportion with the kirk itself, and enclosing a table not much bigger than a footstool. There sat Archie, an apparent prince, the only undeniable gentleman and the only great heritor in the parish, taking his ease in the only pew, for no other in the kirk had doors. Thence he might command an undisturbed view of that congregation of solid plaided men, strapping wives and daughters, oppressed children, and uneasy sheep-dogs. It was strange how Archie missed the look of race; except ...
— Weir of Hermiston • Robert Louis Stevenson



Words linked to "Heritor" :   heiress, recipient, heir presumptive, heir, inheritor, heir-at-law, inheritrix, receiver, inheritress, heir apparent



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