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heiress-presumptive

heiress-presumptive is the alternative form of heiress presumptive.

Meaning of heiress presumptive

Noun

heiress presumptive (plural heiresses presumptive)

  1. A female heir presumptive.
    • Still maintaining an outward appearance of friendship with Elizabeth, he quietly spread among his own people copies of his pedigree, wherein he represented himself as the true heir to the crown of England, by descent from his ancestresses Philippa and Katherine of Lancaster: ignoring the...[1876?], Emily Sarah Holt, “The Invincible Armada”, in Clare Avery: A Story of the Spanish Armada (English Life in the Olden Time), new edition, London: John F. Shaw and Co. […], →OCLC, page 81

Forms of heiress-presumptive

pluralheiresses-presumptive

Questions about heiress-presumptive

What is heiress-presumptive the alternative form of?
Heiress-presumptive is the alternative form of heiress presumptive.

Words near heiress-presumptive in the dictionary

  1. heires
  2. heiress
  3. heiress apparent
  4. heiress presumptive
  5. heiress-apparent
  6. heiress-presumptive
  7. heiressdom
  8. heiresses
  9. heiresses apparent
  10. heiresses presumptive
  11. heiresses-apparent

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