Usage examples (35)

• When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
• Henry Slootmaker said he is on medical leave after a hospital stay for what he described as a hereditary nervous disorder.
• The Byzantine empire was most tranquil and prosperous when it could acquiesce in hereditary succession; five dynasties, the
• She had triumphed over those whom she called her hereditary enemies, and retained half a continent as the monument of her victories.