"heirship" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "heir + -ship",
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    {
      "form": "heirships",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "forced heirship"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1858, Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 12, October, 1858",
          "text": "He began to fear lest he should be obliged to fulfil the duty of heirship to the property deposited with him.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1905, Editor-in-Chief: Rossiter Johnson, The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 8",
          "text": "When that outworn empire perished with the fall of Constantinople, Ivan succeeded nominally at least to its heirship.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1911, Bram Stoker, The Lair of the White Worm",
          "text": "\"After this the family interest merely rested on heirship of the estate.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "The status of being heir to something or someone"
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    {
      "homophone": "airship"
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  "word": "heirship"
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          "ref": "1858, Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 12, October, 1858",
          "text": "He began to fear lest he should be obliged to fulfil the duty of heirship to the property deposited with him.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1905, Editor-in-Chief: Rossiter Johnson, The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 8",
          "text": "When that outworn empire perished with the fall of Constantinople, Ivan succeeded nominally at least to its heirship.",
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          "ref": "1911, Bram Stoker, The Lair of the White Worm",
          "text": "\"After this the family interest merely rested on heirship of the estate.",
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      ],
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      "homophone": "airship"
    }
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  "word": "heirship"
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