Obs. In 6 -oure, 6–7 -or. [f. SURVIVE + -ER4. Cf. SUPERVIVER2.] = SURVIVORSHIP.
1544. trans. Littleton’s Tenures, III. iii. 63 b. They shall haue this by discent & nat by the suruyuour as ioyntenauntes haue.
1583. in East Anglian, April (1910), 249. The said ladye Jerningham ys by survivor sole seysed of and in the said Mannor of Sylehome Comitys.
1602. Warner, Alb. Eng., Epit. (1612), 381. Iohn of Gaunt, by birth the fourth, by suruiuor the second Sonne of Edward the third.
