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adj. - Incapable of being passed down among generations.

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  • Each kind of adaptation has its own sphere, and it is essential that the one should be non-inheritable, the other heritable.
  • Even better, you should consider making the ReadOnly property attribute non-inheritable, so that subtypes can choose their own policies without compromising the...
  • Here again it seems possible that we have a number of states that we are led to believe are simple because they are gathered together under the generic word “madness,” but...
  • "madness," but which may represent a considerable variety of induced and curable and non-inheritable states on the one hand and of innate and incurable and heritable...
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