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Heirship vs Hership - What's the difference?

heirship | hership |

As nouns the difference between heirship and hership

is that heirship is the status of being heir to something or someone while hership is (archaic) pillaging, devastation, plunder.

heirship

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The status of being heir to something or someone
  • * {{quote-book, year=1858, author=Various, title=The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 12, October, 1858, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=He began to fear lest he should be obliged to fulfil the duty of heirship to the property deposited with him. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1905, author=Editor-in-Chief: Rossiter Johnson, title=The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 8, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=When that outworn empire perished with the fall of Constantinople, Ivan succeeded nominally at least to its heirship . }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1911, author=Bram Stoker, title=The Lair of the White Worm, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="After this the family interest merely rested on heirship of the estate. }}

    hership

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (archaic) Pillaging, devastation, plunder.

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