heiress presumptive
heiress presumptive noun: a female heir presumptive.
Noun
heiress presumptive (plural heiresses presumptive)
- 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
- Catherine did not suffer for her inadvertant^([sic]) part in that treason, but was made a maid of honor and lived at Court as one of several heiresses presumptive during Mary Tudor’s reign.1984, Kathy Lynn Emerson, “GREY, CATHERINE (1539-1568)”, in Wives and Daughters: The Women of Sixteenth Century England, Troy, N.Y.: The Whitston Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 97
Forms of heiress presumptive
| plural | heiresses presumptive |
|---|---|
| alternative form | heiress-presumptive |
Questions about heiress presumptive
- What does heiress presumptive mean?
- Heiress presumptive means a female heir presumptive.
- What part of speech is heiress presumptive?
- Heiress presumptive is a noun.
- What is the plural of heiress presumptive?
- The plural of heiress presumptive is heiresses presumptive.
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