inheritage

English

Etymology

From inherit +‎ -age.

Noun

inheritage (countable and uncountable, plural inheritages)

1. (archaic) Synonym of heritage and inheritance.
   • 1557, Anthony of Gueuara [i.e., Antonio de Guevara], “Of the Goldẽ Age in Times Past, and Worldly Misery Which We Haue at This Present”, in Thomas North, transl., The Diall of Princes. […], London: […] [Thomas Marsh for] Iohn Waylande, →OCLC, 1st booke, folio 43, verso, column 2:

     To be riche, to be loꝛdes, and to haue great eſtates, men ſhoulde not thereof at all be pꝛoude, ſence they ſee howe frayle mans condicion is: foꝛ in the end, life is but lone, but death is enheritage.