inheritage

English

Etymology

From inherit +‎ -age.[1]

Noun

inheritage (countable and uncountable, plural inheritages)

  1. (archaic) Synonym of heritage or inheritance.
    • 1557, Anthony of Gueuara [i.e., Antonio de Guevara], “Of the Goldẽ Age in Times Past, and Worldly Misery Which We Haue at This Present”, in Thomas North, transl., The Diall of Princes. […], London: […] [Thomas Marsh for] Iohn Waylande, →OCLC, 1st booke, folio 43, verso, column 2:
      To be riche, to be loꝛdes, and to haue great eſtates, men ſhoulde not thereof at all be pꝛoude, ſence they ſee howe frayle mans condicion is: foꝛ in the end, life is but lone, but death is enheritage.

References

  1. ^ “inheritage, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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