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hereditarily

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English

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Etymology

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From hereditary +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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hereditarily (not comparable)

  1. In a hereditary manner.
    • 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 2, in The Whisperer in Darkness:
      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. With regard to inheritance.