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heretrix

heretrix is the alternative form of heritrix.

Meaning of heritrix

Noun

heritrix (plural heritrices or heritrixes)

  1. A female heritor.
    • They got also Lufnes by marieng the heritrix theirof Riccartoun.[…]The Lairds of Glenbervie are not the oldest Douglasses as some say, but a cadet of Angus maried the heritrix theirof, they being then Melvils verie old in that name, and the powerfullest in all the Mearnes.[…]He was a cadet of...1665–1676, Journals of Sir John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall, with His Observations on Public Affairs and Other Memoranda, 1665-1676, published 1900, pages 203, 208, and 211
    Synonyms:
    heiress, heritress

Forms of heretrix

pluralheretrices
pluralheretrixes

Questions about heretrix

What is heretrix the alternative form of?
Heretrix is the alternative form of heritrix.

Words near heretrix in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: heretrix (page history and authors); heritrix (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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