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n. - A female heir.

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Usage examples (16)
  • You are worthy to be the inheritrix of all I know.
  • Mrs. Le Noir, the daughter of Christopher Smart, an inheritrix of much of his talent.
  • What, then, shall we say of the facility wherewithal the inheritrix of a kingdom or empire falls between the arms of those errant and unknown knights?
  • "If there be any manner of man that will say and maintain that our sovereign Lady, Queen Elizabeth, is not the rightful and undoubted inheritrix to the imperial crown of...
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