Hereditarily

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a hereditary manner. not-comparable

    "After all, there might be some queer and perhaps hereditarily misshapen outcasts in those shunned hills, even though no such race of star-born monsters as folklore claimed."

  2. 2
    With regard to inheritance. not-comparable

Example

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"After all, there might be some queer and perhaps hereditarily misshapen outcasts in those shunned hills, even though no such race of star-born monsters as folklore claimed."

Etymology

From hereditary + -ly.

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