heritour
heritour is the obsolete spelling of heritor.
Meaning of heritor
Noun
heritor (plural heritors)
- A person who inherits; an heir or heiress.
- How comes it then that from such high estate
We have thus fallen, save that Luxury
With barren merchandise piles up the gate
Where nobler thoughts and deeds should enter by:
Else might we still be Milton's heritors.a. 1881, Oscar Wilde, 'Quantum Mutata', in Poems
- How comes it then that from such high estate
- A proprietor or landholder in a parish.
- The printed statement reads (abridged in parts):—
"To the Interested HERITORS in the Counties of Mid-Lothian, Roxburgh, Selkirk, and Berwick. […]1951 February, Michael Robbins, “Sir Walter Scott and Two Early Railway Schemes”, in Railway Magazine, page 87
- The printed statement reads (abridged in parts):—
Forms of heritour
| plural | heritours |
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Questions about heritour
- What is heritour the obsolete spelling of?
- Heritour is the obsolete spelling of heritor.
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