Meaning of heiress apparent | Babel Free

Definitions

A female heir apparent.

Examples

““Dear me!” said I, “what a sweeping charge of folly you are bringing against nearly the whole sex, which, after all, is only another version of what I said, namely, that women were great fools to marry⟳. I have⟳ no doubt⟳ there are exceptions, and that the poor Princess Charlotte, for instance, found a husband the most docile, irreproachable, and obedient of created beings, and that all heiresses apparent to thrones will do the same;[…]””

“Marry⟳ money, thought I to myself, who will he marry⟳? then in my own⟳ mind⟳ I made a review⟳ of all the marriageable heiresses, and heiresses apparent, not only in Silveryville, but likewise, in a circuit several miles around it, and I could not find⟳ one among them all, who was not already engaged to be married to somebody else.”

“Consider⟳ that one in seven of the queens and heiresses apparent of England between William I of Normandy and Victoria of Hanover died in childbed.”

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