After Bellini's death Florimo was treated as his spiritual heir.

As such, this end of Tannadice is the spiritual heir of the old "Shed".

To them Howards End was a house: they could not know that to her it had been a spirit, for which she sought a spiritual heir.

Here at last was the long-sought spiritual heir to the 1970 original.

Its practitioners, spiritual heirs of the 1960's, once flouted convention more obviously.

The second book is his attempt to portray himself as a spiritual heir to the Jewish gangsters.

He had started his own business with nothing, and I think he saw us as his spiritual heirs.

He was the most outstanding student and the spiritual heir of the Ri.

She was also recognised as a master in her own right and as the spiritual heir of her main teacher.

He does not, he said, consider himself a spiritual heir to RuPaul.