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Another word for hereditary

Adjective

  1. Of or from one's ancestors

    2. See also:

    precede

    kin

  2. Possessed at birth

    3. See also:

    native

    be

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Another word for hereditary

Modifier
    2. See also:

    innate

    ancestral

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Sentence Examples

  • We have seen the end of hereditary monarchy.

  • There were no hereditary or formally elected chiefs, nor was there any vestige of monarchy.

  • By the time of the jurists it had become hereditary and compulsory.

  • If it's hereditary, then the mutation has been hidden from us for, like, maybe even hundreds of thousands of years.

  • With the crystallization of the feudal system in the 12th century the office of vidame, like that of avoue, had become an hereditary fief.

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