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heretrices

heretrices is the plural of heretrice.

heretrices is the plural of heretrix.

Meaning of heretrice

Noun

heretrice (plural heretrices)

  1. (obsolete) A woman who inherits; a female heir.
    • William mareid the heretrice of Meldrum, and by him is descended the laird of Meldrum, who reteineth the surname of Seatoun vnto this day.1813, Sir Robert Gordon, A Genealogical History of the Earldom of Sutherland from its Origin to the Year 1630

Questions about heretrices

What is heretrices the plural of?
Heretrices is the plural of heretrice.

Words near heretrices in the dictionary

  1. heretogs
  2. heretor
  3. heretors
  4. heretoward
  5. heretrice
  6. heretrices
  7. heretrix
  8. heretrixes
  9. hereunder
  10. hereunto
  11. hereuntofore

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Adapted from Wiktionary: heretrices (page history and authors); heretrice (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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