Inheritance is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for INHERITANCE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of inheriting property
• a thing that is inherited
• the action of inheriting
• The act or state of inheriting; as, the inheritance of an estate; the inheritance of mental or physical qualities.
• That which is or may be inherited; that which is derived by an heir from an ancestor or other person; a heritage; a possession which passes by descent.
• A permanent or valuable possession or blessing, esp. one received by gift or without purchase; a benefaction.
• Possession; ownership; acquisition.
• Transmission and reception by animal or plant generation.
• A perpetual or continuing right which a man and his heirs have to an estate; an estate which a man has by descent as heir to another, or which he may transmit to another as his heir; an estate derived from an ancestor to an heir in course of law.
• hereditary succession to a title or an office or property
• that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner
• (genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents
• any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act of inheriting property; the reception of genetic qualities by transmission from parent to offspring; the acquisition of a possession, condition, or trait from past generations

Words related to INHERITANCE

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Words that contain INHERITANCE

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How to use INHERITANCE in a sentence

• Cartwright was large, rather fat, and placid, but he felt the house and all it stood for were hers by rightful inheritance.
• For I am thy part and thy inheritance among the children of Israel.
• Still, they remembered that surroundings have greater influence than inheritance, so they held their peace, though Miss Maria stretched out her hand to Mary.
• Preserve, O Lord! thy people, and enhance Thy blessing on thine own inheritance.
• And Naboth said unto Ahab, The Lord forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee.
• For the daughters of Manasses possessed inheritance in the midst of his sons.
• And of course we shall find out what was his real name and what is the kind of inheritance which has been waiting for you so long, my dear.
• It is clear that his fear of the little animal is based not upon reason, but upon an uncontrollable sensitiveness in his nervous system acquired by inheritance or otherwise.
• With what absorbing eagerness his young mind would be drawn to the study of the immortal deeds, which were the inheritance of his race, on the very spot where they were done.
• THE KINGDOM OF GOD CONCEIVED AS THE INHERITANCE OF THE POOR.
• They were contented to live for this world alone, caring nothing for that heavenly inheritance promised to those who love God and keep his commandments.
• The prince, summoned by Herod, was now returning, under royal banners, to receive his inheritance of glory and power.
• It is still a question as to just what characters may be inherited, and what influences may affect the inheritance.
• That noblest inheritance of Christendom never reached out so far into the wilds.
• Any profession of the Catholic religion, or marriage with a Catholic, disqualified from inheritance to or possession of the throne.
• The girls had a peculiar old aunt and when she died she left an unusual inheritance.
• There remained to them, however, the inheritance of Jean Roche, the inn near the Place Baudet, at the sign of the Bear, the title of which Jaquet Guillaume bore.
• Quite aside from the history, it seems certain that no results such as shown by Dugdale could have followed from inheritance.
• And this is based not merely on an actual physical inheritance from the various older races.
• The inheritance of tendencies or weaknesses may be more common than the actual inheritance of defects.
• The policy of Piedmont, he said, had never altered since the king received his inheritance on the field of Novara.
• These two houses were part of the Clancharlie inheritance.
• Another cause of the differences existing between individuals is difference in race inheritance.
• This feeling, as may be seen at once, is an inheritance from our savage ancestors, or perhaps from our lowly-animal ancestral roots.
• It was fitting that the last, true to their peculiar inheritance, should be a black Penny.
• Being descended from a distant branch of the Lacies, he had long thrown a covetous glance towards the inheritance.
• It had been new, when the present proprietor of the hotel, then a young man, now a middle-aged one, had come into his inheritance.

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