"heiress-presumptive" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: heiresses-presumptive [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|heiresses-presumptive}} heiress-presumptive (plural heiresses-presumptive)
  1. Alternative form of heiress presumptive. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: heiress presumptive
    Sense id: en-heiress-presumptive-en-noun-3H-~zj6- Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1949 autumn, J[ohn] A[rkas] Hawgood, “The British Constitution in 1948”, in Stephen King-Hall, Sydney D[awson] Bailey, editors, Parliamentary Affairs: The Journal of the Hansard Society, volume II, number 4, London: The Hansard Society, page 340",
          "text": "The terms of the Princess Elizabeth and Duke of Edinburgh’s Annuities Act (11th February, 1948) call for no special comment. The Act is of constitutional interest mainly because there was no recent precedent for such provision having to be made for an heiress-presumptive, and for her husband, upon their marriage.",
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          "ref": "1954, George Hilton Jones, “[Revolutioners and Jacobites: Compounders and Non-Compounders (1688–1694)] The Revolution”, in The Main Stream of Jacobitism, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →LCCN, pages 4–5",
          "text": "The prospect of a Catholic heir was repugnant to the heiresses-presumptive, as well as to the populace, for religious reasons; for Mary and Anne were as devout in their religious views as James was in his.",
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          "ref": "1971, Mary M. Luke, “A King and His Sisters”, in A Crown for Elizabeth, London: Michael Joseph, page 295",
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          "ref": "1982, Robert E. Sullivan, “John Toland: A Portrait”, in John Toland and the Deist Controversy: A Study in Adaptations (Harvard Historical Studies; CI), Cambridge, Mass., London: Harvard University Press, page 22",
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