INHERITING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inheriting mean? 

• INHERITING (adjective)
  The adjective INHERITING has 1 sense:

1. having the legal right to inherit

  Familiarity information: INHERITING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INHERITING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having the legal right to inherit

Similar:

heritable; inheritable (capable of being inherited)

 Context examples 

It certainly is a most iniquitous affair, said Mr. Bennet, and nothing can clear Mr. Collins from the guilt of inheriting Longbourn.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Every person has two copies, or alleles, T and C, of each gene, inheriting one copy from each parent.

(Researchers link single gene variation to obesity, NIH)

She had no resources for solitude; and inheriting a considerable share of the Elliot self-importance, was very prone to add to every other distress that of fancying herself neglected and ill-used.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

To him therefore the succession to the Norland estate was not so really important as to his sisters; for their fortune, independent of what might arise to them from their father's inheriting that property, could be but small.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

If you need farther explanation, I have the honour, my dear madam, of being your husband's son, and the advantage of inheriting a disposition to hope for good, which no inheritance of houses or lands can ever equal the value of.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

This was his plan of amends—of atonement—for inheriting their father's estate; and he thought it an excellent one, full of eligibility and suitableness, and excessively generous and disinterested on his own part.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)