enheritance (1341)
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enheritance (1341)

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  FEW:  hereditare 4,411a Gdf:  enheritance 3,189b GdfC: ∅ TL: *eniretance 3,427 DEAF:  eriter (eneritance)  DMF:  enhéritance  TLF: ∅ OED:  inheritance n.  MED:  enheritaunce n.  DMLBS: ∅
enheritaunce;  inheritaunce  

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1lawhereditament, property, rights or privileges that can be inherited: 
( 1389 )  [...] pur ce q’il touche l’enheritance du roy  iii 265
( 1471-81; MS: 1482) chescun fee simple que home ad par son purchas poet estre dit enheritaunce, pur ceo que sez heirz luy pourrount enheriter  2.9
2 right of inheritance, ability to inherit: 
( 1341 )  nous destruoms enheritance en celui de qi vous priez eide  15 Ed III 461
( 1489 )  de cell tenaunce il ad inheritaunce et un fee simple [...]  i 207.13
enheritable  enheritablement  enheriteison  enheritement  enheriter#1  enheriter#2  heritance 
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