LekhoriLekhoriAn inheritance; property that may be inherited.
Now unſpeakable happy are all thoſe that have ſuch an heritage: can we thinke they will part with it? No verily, […] they will not part with ſuch an inheritance as Chriſt is, rich, fat, alwayes fruitfull, and never decaying.
A tradition; a practice or set of values that is passed down from preceding generations through families or through institutional memory.
In fact it was a multifarious agglomerate of many little countries, gathered by marriage, heritage and luck, in the course of centuries, and now united in the hand of this Duke Wilhelm.
A birthright; the status acquired by birth, especially of but not exclusive to the firstborn.
A surname.
From Middle English heritage, from Old French eritage, heritage (modern French héritage), ultimately derived (through suffixation) from Latin hērēs. By surface analysis, herit + -age.
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