Definition of "inheritress" []

• Female inheritor (noun)

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• "The Empress Eudoxia was the inheritress of the influence of the two murdered"
• "Marcella Boyce, a "finished" and grown-up young woman of twenty-one, the only daughter and child of Mr. Boyce of Mellor Park, inheritress of one of the most ancient names in Midland England, and just entering on a life which to her own fancy and will, at any rate, promised the highest possible degree of interest and novelty."
• "Alone in her dominion, the inheritress entered the death-chamber, and there passed an hour upon her knees."