Definition of "heritor" [her•it•or]

• An inheritor. (noun)

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• "David being a virtuoso in his own way, and moreover a landholder and heritor, was a qualified judge of all who frequented his house, and therefore I could not avoid again tying the strings of my knees."
• "But for my sake I will make you heritor of the line Khemara, and to this linehold and all its property; and the price is that you will be Khemara and forget that you ever were Rustazh."
• "For though she was heritor of a life full-blooded and undisciplined, every fiber of her was clean and pure."