Meaning of heiress-apparent | Babel Free

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Noun. [C2]

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“Apprehensive that a too intimate connexion with foreign interests might interfere⟳ with their own⟳, that sagacious people usually allied their princesses of the blood to the minor reigning rajahs of India, and their heiresses-apparent to such of the offspring of the same princes as were out of the view⟳ of a crown.”

“Fortunately for herself, the day of trial found Bell possessed of spirit and energy not always remaining to those who have⟳ been heiresses-apparent.”

“Up to the age of forty-eight, Zoë lived in retirement in the Gynecea, with her eldest sister, Theodora. The two heiresses-apparent to the throne had thus become⟳ “old maids.””

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