hereditarily

adv — 2 senses

hereditarily

adv

Etymology From hereditary + -ly.

1

In a hereditary manner.

  • 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.1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 2, in The Whisperer in Darkness:
2

With regard to inheritance.

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