hereditarily

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Adverb

hereditarily (not comparable)

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

     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.

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