Hereditary
Descended, or capable of descending, from an ancestor to an heir at law; received or passing by inheritance, or that must pass by inheritance; as, an hereditary estate or crown.
Transmitted, or capable of being transmitted, as a constitutional quality or condition from a parent to a child; as, hereditary pride, bravery, disease.
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Hereditary Quotations
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
Thomas Paine
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
Carl Sagan
Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
Sam Levenson
I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
James Whistler
OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.
James Nasmyth
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Walter Scott
In Pakistan politics is hereditary.
Imran Khan
Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.
Edward Gibbon
I was born with this. It's a hereditary genetic condition. This is something you can go your whole life without really knowing that something's wrong. I had high blood pressure, and that was the first sign.
Steven Cojocaru
There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.
Paul Getty
Hereditary Translations
hereditary in German is erblich
hereditary in Italian is ereditario
hereditary in Norwegian is arvelig
hereditary in Spanish is hereditario
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