disheritance

English

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English disheritaunce, from Anglo-Norman desheritaunce, disheritaunce; equivalent to disherit +‎ -ance.

Noun

disheritance (usually uncountable, plural disheritances)

1. (obsolete) Synonym of 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

• “disheritance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• echinasterid

Middle English

Noun

disheritance

1. alternative form of disheritaunce