Usage examples (12)

• Both have gone to their long home, leaving their only child inheritress of a handsome estate.
• Fadius G alius had left him his heir, and in thfc body of the testator's will it was found that he had directed Sextilius to write his daughter Fadia sole inheritress.
• If I were HM Queen, as inheritress of a proud and hard-won tradition of fair trials and presumption of innocence, I would want my initials taken off their title, pronto.
• Thereupon he understood the rare attraction of that girl, inheritress of her father's genius, whose new-born celebrity had reached as far as his province, with the halo...