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What is the noun for inherit?

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heritage
  1. An inheritance; property that may be inherited.
  2. A tradition; a practice or set of values that is passed down from preceding generations through families or through institutional memory.
  3. A birthright; the status acquired by birth, especially of but not exclusive to the firstborn.
  4. (attributive) Having a certain background, such as growing up with a second language.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “He is a talented man of Indian heritage who has distinguished himself by his service to his country in the armed services.”
      “They commit themselves to the Confucian beliefs and practices that they find in their shared cultural heritage.”
      “The founder supposedly inherited his heritage from his great-great-grandmother.”
inheritance
  1. The passing of title to an estate upon death.
  2. (countable) That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament.
  3. (biology) The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.
  4. (programming) In object-oriented programming, the mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “She feared losing her inheritance to her stepmother.”
      “Richard saw the bestowal of power over Ireland to John as a threat to his inheritance of the throne.”
      “The condition is rare and is caused by the inheritance of an abnormal gene from an affected parent.”
heir
  1. Someone who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another.
  2. One who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office.
  3. A successor in a role, representing continuity with the predecessor.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Upon the death of his father Frederick in 1751, George succeeded as Prince of Wales and heir to the throne.”
      “The practice of kinetic art in Latin America is heir to such European movements as Futurism and Constructivism.”
      “Both candidates are portraying themselves as the sole true heir of Reaganism.”
heritability
  1. (uncountable) The condition of being inheritable
  2. (genetics) The ratio of the genetic variance of a population to its phenotypic variance; i.e. the proportion of variability that is genetic in origin
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The heritability of eye color is high, as it is often passed down from one generation to the next.”
      “He mentions a new book on IQ and the heritability of criminal tendencies, among other things.”
      “Population geneticists dismiss such gene frequencies by convention and so count digit number as having no heritability.”
heritor
  1. A person who inherits; an heir or heiress.
  2. (Scotland) A proprietor or landholder in a parish.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Man is not only the rightful heritor of Almighty God but is a royal prince too.”
      “When someone was believed to be a heritor and he turns not to be, the inheritance partition will be null.”
      “This claim of an existing Assyrian nation that is supposed to be the real heritor of what is now Iraq is obviously void.”
inheritor
  1. Someone who inherits something; an heir.
  2. (computing) A class, etc. that derives from another code element through inheritance.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “No wonder my heart swells with pride to be an inheritor of this wonderful legacy.”
      “The granddaughter and last direct descendant of the late Greek tycoon is also the inadvertent inheritor of a tragic family history.”
      “Other distinctions to be wary of include whether the tax is on the estate of the deceased or on what an inheritor actually receives.”
heiress
  1. A woman who has a right of inheritance or who stands to inherit.
  2. A woman who has received an inheritance.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Prosecutors said after investigating the eccentric heiress there was not enough evidence to convict her of petty theft.”
      “The tower portion was built about 1420 by Sir Walter Innes, whose father had married Janet de Aberkerder, heiress to the thanage.”
      “Certainly, he could have applied his charms to some rich widow or dim-witted heiress long ago.”
hereditament
  1. (law) Property which can be inherited.
  2. Inheritance.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The transition from realty to personalty with the prospect of reincarnation as a corporeal hereditament does not seem to me to be relevant.”
      “Vtesse failed to take into account separately assessed properties and the rateable value of BT's hereditament in Scotland and Northern Ireland.”
      “In any case, a methodology that consists in separating parts of BT's hereditament and valuing them in isolation seems questionable.”
hereditarianism
  1. the school of thought that heredity is more important than factors such as environment in determining intelligence and behaviour
  2. Examples:
    1. “Despite his hereditarianism and eugenicism, Hans kept on wanting to help people by more conventional psychological means.”
      “In the 1940s, hereditarianism and behaviourism were not independent of each other, but instead fed off each other.”
      “After 1890, hereditarianism gained increasing support, due in part to the work of German biologist August Weismann.”
heredity
  1. Hereditary transmission of the physical and genetic qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “This early conception of the lycanthrope as a victim of heredity left the monster in a morally ambiguous position.”
      “The eugenicists believed Mendelian laws governed the heredity of human physiological traits and social traits.”
      “The only known contributory factors to prostate cancer are a fatty diet, and for testicular cancer, heredity.”
hereditary
  1. A hereditary ruler; a hereditary peer in the House of Lords.
inheritee
  1. (uncommon) heir, inheritor (one who inherits)
hereditarianist
  1. One who subscribes to the theory of hereditarianism.
heirhood
  1. The state or condition of being an heir; heirship
  2. Examples:
    1. “Does this reflect a scribal scruple to have the element of universal heirhood incorporated, or is this a piety of Sara herself?”
inheritrix
heirhead
  1. (derogatory) The foolish heir to a large fortune.
heirship
  1. The status of being heir to something or someone
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Allotments commonly became so divided by heirship that they were virtually worthless except for leasing.”
      “Allotments commonly became so fractionalized by heirship that they were virtually worthless except for leasing.”
      “Refusal to accept heirship to a father could appear as a violation of the duty of filial piety.”
hereditability
  1. The quality of being hereditable.
  2. Examples:
    1. “So Rushton's use of this data to draw the conclusions he reaches about hereditability is sound in my opinion.”
      “We should propose, then, to introduce a distinction between the hereditability of deviation and that of character.”
hereditariness
  1. (rare) The property of being hereditary.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The natural conservatism of such people because of hereditariness can provide a useful brake.”
      “Known risk factors include age, gender, hereditariness, smoking, hypertension and high blood lipid levels.”
      “He commissioned the crown as a symbol of the hereditariness and holiness of the state's highest office.”
hereditation
  1. The effect or influence of heredity.
inheritress
inheriter
  1. Alternative form of inheritor
inheritour
  1. Obsolete form of inheritor.
heritour
  1. Obsolete spelling of heritor
heritableness
inheritability
  1. heritability
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The inheritability of intelligence is a topic of ongoing research in the field of behavioral genetics.”
      “This was true for every group except African-Americans, who chose inheritability as their biggest reason for supporting accounts.”
      “While no susceptibility gene has yet been identified, evidence of inheritability exists.”
inheritableness
heire
  1. Archaic spelling of heir.
heritance
  1. (archaic) inheritance
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “If you are interested in cultural and historical heritance you will not be disappointed.”
      “The annual gift allowance of pounds 3,000 can be used to reduce one's estate immediately and so cut down your in heritance tax liability.”
      “My mother, who died at sea when I was born, gave me a heritance with winds and waves and stars.”
heirlessness
  1. Lack of an heir.
hereditarianists
  1. plural of hereditarianist
hereditabilities
  1. plural of hereditability
hereditaments
  1. plural of hereditament
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Having defined hereditaments as inheritable interests, the common law went on to distinguish between corporeal and incorporeal hereditaments.”
      “I have discovered that on these, the boundaries of hereditaments were often carelessly delineated and only outlined with coloured crayon.”
      “The 1924 Contract was never, so far as is known, completed by the formal legal transfer of the lands and hereditaments comprised in it.”
heritabilities
  1. plural of heritability
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “What if the heritabilities observed for IQ are a result of indirect effects that can be changed by changing social practice?”
      “Because reproductive traits have low heritabilities, we need more information than with production traits.”
      “They suffer from low heritabilities and a corresponding lack of genetic gain in conventional selection and breeding programmes.”
inheritances
  1. plural of inheritance
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Traditionally, much agricultural land and urban property was held as collective property, either undivided inheritances or endowed land.”
      “Even if no lawsuit is filed, it can be quite unsettling to deal with overanxious beneficiaries who want their inheritances immediately.”
      “We are merely at the end of the golden weather, living off the moral and economic inheritances we received from those hearty folk of old.”
inheritresses
inheritours
  1. plural of inheritour
inheritrixes
  1. plural of inheritrix
hereditaries
  1. plural of hereditary
inheritrices
  1. plural of inheritrix
heritances
inheritees
  1. plural of inheritee
inheriters
  1. plural of inheriter
inheritors
  1. plural of inheritor
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The bagpipes are warpipes and those who thrill to them today are the inheritors of a warrior tradition.”
      “They are the problem in Mindanao because they have always been the aggressors, oppressors and colonizers, the inheritors of piratic colonialism.”
      “So we are, in fact, the inheritors and recipients of all of those interesting evolutionary experiments.”
heirheads
  1. plural of heirhead
heritages
  1. plural of heritage
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “She covers crust-making, dips into the origins of myriad pies, and includes recipes with rich heritages, such as stargazy pie from Cornwall.”
      “The walls of its entryway have murals depicting scenes honoring the Spanish and Mayan heritages.”
      “At the same time, she says, you cannot erase the fact that immigrants do bring other heritages and cultures into what constitutes America.”
heritours
  1. plural of heritour
heirships
heredities
heritors
  1. plural of heritor
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The church had 430 sittings all divided among the heritors, these being the land-owners and farmers in the parish.”
      “Schools were supported by a combination of kirk funds, contributions from local heritors or burgh councils and parents that could pay.”
      “Three schools were run but the teachers were not always paid by the heritors.”
heiresses
  1. plural of heiress
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The plot is about a pair of cosmetic company heiresses who lose their family fortune.”
      “He not only had offices at his disposal, he also had heirs, heiresses, and widows.”
      “Of course, it is not obligatory for young heirs and heiresses to make headlines for all the wrong reasons.”
heires
  1. plural of heire
heirs
  1. plural of heir
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Inheritance is based partly on agnation, and agnatic kin are theoretically all potential heirs to each other's livestock and other wealth.”
      “The heirs were Kickapoos who had received allotments in the same reservation in their own right.”
      “After the churches themselves passed out of private hands, the advowsons tended to remain with the heirs.”
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