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Definition:That which is inherited, or passes from heir to heir; inheritance.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)---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 languagetext from Wiktionary, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
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Just as incontestably as it was necessary to repay a debt was it necessary to keep the property in such a condition that his son, when he received it as a heritage, would say “thank you” to his father
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (1878)
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“Gus, did I hear correctly? Did I hear you say something about selling your heritage?” Mrs. Levy screamed.John Kennedy Toole. A Confederacy of Dunces (1980)
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Part of my heritage, Which my dead father did bequeath to me.
William Shakespeare. Pericles, Prince of Tyre (1608)
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He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken. It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.
George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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