A partner in an inheritance; a joint heir.
1585. Abp. Sandys, Serm. (1841), 204. In our new birth or regeneration we are made brethren and fellow-heirs with Christ of God’s kingdom.
1611. Bible, Eph. iii. 6. The Gentiles should be fellowheires.
1675. Brooks, Paradice Opened, 151. Suffering saints and you are Fellow-heirs, and will you not visit your Fellow-heirs?
1869. W. P. Mackay, Grace & Truth (1875), 68. We are fellow-heirs with Him, created anew in Christ Jesus our responsible Head, and this is our security.
Hence Fellow-heirship.
1869. Goulburn, Purs. Holiness, i. 5. The truth of the Gentiles’ fellow-heirship.
