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Inherited

adjective

Occurring among members of a family usually by heredity. Synonyms: familial, genetic, hereditary, transmissible, transmitted. "Familial traits" , "Genetically transmitted features"

Inherit

verb

(past & past part. inherited; pres. part. inheriting)

Obtain from someone after their death.

Receive from a predecessor.

Receive by genetic transmission.

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... matters were disposed of, he began to speak of what was nearest his heart. He had a good deal of money; he wanted to leave it to some lasting use. Hamilton asked how he had made his money, and Randall explained he had inherited ...

— Greenwich Village • Anna Alice Chapin

... Socialists either consciously or by feeling; the masses, whose adhesion gave them strength, were rough, neglected, looked down upon by the working-class aristocracy; but they had this immense advantage, that their minds were virgin soil, entirely free from the inherited "respectable" bourgeois prejudices which hampered the brains of the better situated "old" Unionists. And thus we see now these new Unions taking the lead of the working-class movement generally, and more and more taking in tow the rich ...

— The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 - with a Preface written in 1892 • Frederick Engels

... emphasizing the responsibility of the individual to society, Kielland chooses by preference to reverse the relation. The former (in his remarkable novel Flags are Flying in City and Harbor) selects a hero with vicious inherited tendencies, redeemed by wise education and favorable environment; the latter portrays in Elsie a heroine with no corrupt predisposition, destroyed by the corrupting environment which society forces upon those who are born in her circumstances. Elsie could not be good, ...

— Tales of Two Countries • Alexander Kielland

... it was a mighty tussle to get both ends within cover of meeting. We felt the full force of the heavy hand of poverty—the most stinging kind of poverty too, that which still holds up its head and keeps an outside appearance. Far more grinding is this than the poverty inherited from generations which is not ashamed of itself, and has not as an accompaniment the wounded pride and ...

— My Brilliant Career • Miles Franklin

... less original. Not only in the general conception of important characters, but in particular scenes, situations, motives, contrasts and forms of expression, we can see the influence of the literary tradition which he inherited. ...

— The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller • Calvin Thomas

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