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heirship en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

From heir + -ship.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The status of being heir to something or someone
   • When that outworn empire perished with the fall of Constantinople, Ivan succeeded nominally at least to its heirship. 1905, Editor-in-Chief: Rossiter Johnson, The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 8:
   • He began to fear lest he should be obliged to fulfil the duty of heirship to the property deposited with him. 1858, Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 12, October, 1858:
   • "After this the family interest merely rested on heirship of the estate. 1911, Bram Stoker, The Lair of the White Worm:

Forms

Deriveds

forced heirship