Misinherit
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Misinherit is a verb meaning To inherit incorrectly.
Meaning
To inherit incorrectly.
Example Sentences
He confessed at the last that he had betrayed the trust of the dead, and misinherited a fortune .
And this incongruence of the inner constitution of man's soul is invincible and universal: his nature is a disordered jumble of misinherited tendencies.
This prepared a legacy that the further acquaintance of the seventeenth century could only misinherit because seventeenth-century American settlers concentrated on "developing" the land, not on describing it.
Word Forms
- misinherits
- misinheriting
- misinherited
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include misstore, mislearn, misassign, mismerge, misinfer, miscontinue.
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