inheritress
English
Etymology
From inheritor + -ess.
Noun
inheritress (plural inheritresses)
- A female inheritor; an heiress.
- 1790, Jane Austen, ‘Love and Freindship’, Juvenilia:
- By their decease I became the lawfull Inheritress of their House and Fortune.
- 1790, Jane Austen, ‘Love and Freindship’, Juvenilia:
Derived terms
- coinheritress