heritance arch.
(ˈhɛrɪtəns)
[a. OF. heritance, f. hériter to inherit: see herit v.]
Inheritance; heirship. Also fig.
| 1422 tr. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. (E.E.T.S.) 159 Esau, for a lytill Potage solde the ryght of his herytaunce. c 1489 Caxton Sonnes of Aymon xix. 404 A prysoner, by whom I shall have peas, and all myn herytaunce agayne. 1566 Drant Wail. Hierem. in Farr S.P. Eliz. (1845) II. 417 Our heritaunce is cut of quyte. a 1635 Naunton Fragm. Reg. (Arb.) 23 Our Common-Law, which is the heritance of the Kingdome. 1801 Southey Thalaba i. (D.), These were my heritance, O God! they gifts were these. 1896 Miss Macleod Sin-Eater Ded., The beauty of the world, the pathos of life, the gloom, the spiritual glamour..the heritance of the Gael. |