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Heir presumptive

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Someone who will become an heir (usually to a monarchy) only if no-one with a higher-ranking claim is born.

    "I am quite aware that your premature decease would leave me heir-presumptive to the title- ”Heir-presumptive? . . . Oh, I see. My mother might peg out and my father marry again. Calculating brute.”"

  2. 2
    a person who expects to inherit but whose right can be defeated by the birth of a nearer relative wordnet

Etymology

A calque of French héritier présomptif, hence the unusual order of adjective following noun.

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