Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Heritage; inheritance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Heritage; inheritance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic
inheritance
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Examples
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Barring, however, only wants her to help him assure his in heritance by participating in one more crime, a murder.
Not the Girl Next Door Charlotte Chandler 2008
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Barring, however, only wants her to help him assure his in heritance by participating in one more crime, a murder.
Not the Girl Next Door Charlotte Chandler 2008
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Barring, however, only wants her to help him assure his in heritance by participating in one more crime, a murder.
Not the Girl Next Door Charlotte Chandler 2008
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Barring, however, only wants her to help him assure his in heritance by participating in one more crime, a murder.
Not the Girl Next Door Charlotte Chandler 2008
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I also knew someone who was of Greek and German heritance I think his mother was German and his father was Greek.
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A museum is only a custodian of our collective cultural heritance, and has a responsibility to make its holdings available to everyone.
Quote for the Day 2004
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A museum is only a custodian of our collective cultural heritance, and has a responsibility to make its holdings available to everyone.
Archive 2004-11-01 2004
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Several thinkers have been impressed by the predominant effect of one factor or another: Marx by the pressure of economic needs and of the current system for coping with them; Freud by the twists of emotional attitude formed in us during one helpless immaturity; Jung by the individual's in - heritance of ancestral archetypes of personal relation or function.
FREE WILL IN THEOLOGY AUSTIN FARRER 1968
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For the most part they grasp at aspects of their opponents 'work, such as the discovery of extrachromosomal in - heritance, or at the arguments of geneticists like
Dictionary of the History of Ideas DAVID JORAVSKY 1968
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The French monarch knew naught but to debauch his heritance; the French courtier intrigued and plundered; the French peasant, dogged and sullen in his long suffering, dragged out his miserable existence.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 Various
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