inheritress

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English

Etymology

From inheritor +‎ -ess.

Noun

inheritress (plural inheritresses)

  1. A female inheritor; an heiress.
    • 1790, Jane Austen, “Love and Freindship”, in Juvenilia:
      By their decease I became the lawfull Inheritress of their House and Fortune.

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