hereditarily

Etymology

hereditary + -ly

adv

  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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