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inheritance Noun 1. Law a. hereditary succession to an estate or title b. the right of an heir to succeed on the death of an ancestor 2. something inherited or to be inherited 3. the act of inheriting 4. the fact of receiving characteristics from an earlier generation by heredity
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inheritance Translations (fig) → patrimonio the situation that was his inheritance as president → la situation dont il a hérité en tant que président; law of inheritance → droit m de la succession |
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| I warn all readers of these lines that Miss Fairlie's inheritance is a very serious part of Miss Fairlie's story, and that Mr. From the former of these, he derived an agreeable person, a sound constitution, a solid understanding, and a benevolent heart; by the latter, he was decreed to the inheritance of one of the largest estates in the county. de Treville, as he has ended by styling himself in Paris, had really commenced life as D'Artagnan now did; that is to say, without a sou in his pocket, but with a fund of audacity, shrewdness, and intelligence which makes the poorest Gascon gentleman often derive more in his hope from the paternal inheritance than the richest Perigordian or Berrichan gentleman derives in reality from his. |
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