disheritance
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Compare Old French desheritance.
Noun[edit]
disheritance (usually uncountable, plural disheritances)
- (obsolete) disinheritance.
- 1626 February 1 (licensing date), John Fletcher [et al.], “The Faire Maide of the Inne”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- Who having chid me almost to the Ruin, / Of a Disheritance
References[edit]
- “disheritance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.