Thursday, April 4, 2013

Why there is no article before "heire"?

The following passage is from All's Well That Ends Well:



Shee is young, wise, faire,
In these, to Nature shee's immediate heire:

And these breed honour:



According to the research I did on Cambridge dictionary heir is countable. If so, why there is no article before heire? Likewise,
The French finance minister is heir to a tradition of central control that goes back to Louis XIV.

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