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| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : in-her-it |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɪnˈhɛr ɪt |
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Définition of inherited
Origin :- c.1300, "to make (someone) an heir," from Old French enheriter "make heir, appoint as heir," from Late Latin inhereditare "to appoint as heir," from Latin in- "in" (see in- (2)) + hereditare "to inherit," from heres (genitive heredis) "heir" (see heredity). Sense of "receive inheritance" arose mid-14c.; original sense is retained in disinherit. Related: Inherited; inheriting.
- adj hereditary
- His name was Cup and he too had inherited his land from a hundred other Cups who had gone before.
- Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon
- He was of good birth, and he was the possessor of an inherited competence.
- Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
- Inherited instinct; no more public than—than being a beauty.
- Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark
- That can only come from inherited wealth: the principle is old, very old.
- Extract from : « City of Endless Night » by Milo Hastings
- There was a queenliness in her beauty, which she inherited from her mother's high-born race.
- Extract from : « Henry Dunbar » by M. E. Braddon
- I had the sense of an inherited character to sustain in the new order of things.
- Extract from : « Wilfrid Cumbermede » by George MacDonald
- We have inherited marriage as a social, nay more, a racial institution.
- Extract from : « The Truth About Woman » by C. Gasquoine Hartley
- Thus it is not alcoholism or the craving for drink which is inherited.
- Extract from : « The Sexual Question » by August Forel
- Thus the robustness of the parents is inherited by the children.
- Extract from : « Tacitus on Germany » by Tacitus
- For with the inherited shrewdness of her class she had also their integrity.
- Extract from : « A Singer from the Sea » by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
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