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hereditarily en · ADV

Etymology

From hereditary + -ly.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) 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. (not-comparable) With regard to inheritance.