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Antonyms for heritance
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : her-i-tns |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈhɛr ɪ tns |
Definition of heritance
- As in inheritance : noun possession gained through someone's death
- As in birth : noun heritage
- As in heritage : noun person's background, tradition
- Only he had the good sense to die before he had spent all his heritance.
- Extract from : « The White Plumes of Navarre » by Samuel Rutherford Crockett
- My mother, who died at sea when I was born, gave me a heritance with winds and waves and stars.
- Extract from : « Semiramis and Other Plays » by Olive Tilford Dargan
Synonyms for heritance
- ancestry
- background
- bequest
- birthright
- blood
- breeding
- convention
- culture
- custom
- derivation
- descent
- devise
- dowry
- endowment
- estate
- extraction
- fashion
- forebears
- genealogy
- gift
- heirloom
- heirship
- heritage
- heritance
- inheritance
- legacy
- line
- lineage
- lot
- parentage
- patrimony
- pedigree
- portion
- position
- primogeniture
- race
- rank
- right
- share
- station
- status
- stock
- strain
- tradition
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