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How to use hereditary in a sentence

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Hereditary means passed on as an inheritance, by last will or intestate. Example: “Duke is a hereditary title which was created in Norman times.”

Examples of hereditary by meaning

adjectiveOf a title, honor or right: legally granted to somebody's descendant after that person's death.

  • Duke is a hereditary title which was created in Norman times.

adjectiveOf a disease or trait: passed from a parent to offspring in the genes.

  • Haemophilia is hereditary in his family.
  • Xanthuria is an hereditary disorder in which there is an absence of the enzyme xanthine oxidase which interferes with the metabolic breakdown of purines, leading to an increased excretion of xanthine in the urine and to formation of stones.1985, Urology, volume 2, page 12

More sentences with hereditary

  • Some traditional societies have a single hereditary tribal chief, others a whole hierarchy of elected tribal chiefs, etc.From the entry tribal chief
  • Some of the hereditary peers can trace their family’s presence in the Lords back to medieval times.2024 July 20, Harriet Sherwood, “The last of the hereditary peers in the House of Lords”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry hereditary peer
  • Xanthine calculi are seen in patients with hereditary xanthuria and those undergoing treatment with allopurinol.2014, Emilio Quaia, Radiological Imaging of the Kidney, page 398. From the entry xanthuria
  • Generalized megadontia has been reported in association with pituitary gigantism, unilateral facial hyperplasia, and hereditary gingival fibromatosis.2012, P. J. M. Crawford, M. J. Aldred, “Anomalies of tooth formation and eruption”, in Richard Welbury, Monty S. Duggal, Marie Thérèse…. From the entry megadontia
  • While there is a hereditary component to tori, this does not explain all cases.2010 March, Andrés S. García-García, José-María Martínez-González, Rafael Gómez-Font, Ángeles Soto-Rivadeneira, Lucia Oviedo-Roldán…. From the entry torus
  • This is a qualitative anomaly understood as hereditary and somewhat similar to schizoidia.2006, Andrew M. Lobaczewski, Political Ponerology, Afterword, p. 221-222. From the entry debilism
  • Among the Maori sovereignty was the result of mana—power based on hereditary rank and personal achievement.2001 September, Aldo Matteucci, “Language and Diplomacy – A Practitioner's View”, in Jovan Kurbalija, Hannah Slavik, editors, Language and…. From the entry mana
  • No-one shall be a member of the House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage.1999, Parliament of the United Kingdom, “Section 1”, in House of Lords Act 1999ᵂⁱᵏⁱˢᵒᵘʳᶜᵉ, page 1. From the entry no-one
  • In the Honam region, the succession is through paternal lines based on tan'golp'an (hereditary priestly authority).1988, Kim T'ae-gon, “Regional Characteristics of Korean Shamanism”, in Yi Yu-jin, transl., edited by Richard W.I. Guisso and Chai-shun Yu…. From the entry Honam
  • The services in the temple of Jagannatha are still arranged on these hereditary divisions.1960, Mayadhar Mansinha, History of Oriya Literature, Sahitya Akademi, page 76. From the entry Jagannath
  • The familiary or hereditary variety of chronic progressive bulbar paralysis is of comparatively recent recognition.1900, Joseph Collins, The Treatment of Diseases of the Nervous System, page 302. From the entry familiary
  • It’s hereditary, but that doesn’t always explain it.2018, Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death, HarperVoyager, page 211. From the entry scoliosis
  • Collecting art was hereditary among the Rockefellers.2016 May 20, Douglas P. Clement, “At the Rockefellers’ Kykuit, Painterly Gardens and a Rosy Legacy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry T'ang
  • Besides, Suffolk, attainted – stripped of his hereditary title – was no longer a member of the nobility, merely ‘Ed.2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 228. From the entry attainted
  • As at most Hindu pilgrimage sites, Hardwar has a group of local brahmins who serve as hereditary pilgrim guides.2010, James G. Lochtefeld, “The Hardwar Pandas”, in God’s Gateway: Identity and Meaning in a Hindu Pilgrimage Place, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry panda
  • The Turkish title of atabeg (also atabek or atabey), meaning "father prince", was a hereditary title of the Turkish nobility.2010, Avner Falk, Franks and Saracens: Reality and Fantasy in the Crusades, page 121. From the entry atabey
  • They also have a few hereditary titles.1999, Bernard J. Hibitts, “‘Our Arctic Brethren’: Canadian Law And Lawyers As Portrayed In American Legal Periodicals, 1829–1911”, in…. From the entry dudism
  • Tritanopia is an extremely rare hereditary condition corresponding to a loss in function of the short wavelength sensitive cones.1990, T. E. Frumkes, “7: Classical and Modern Psychological Studies of Dark and Light Adaptation”, in K. Nicholas Leibovic, editor…. From the entry tritanopia
  • Whether euphenics will be sufficient to cure all hereditary diseases in the long run is a different question.1977, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Evolution. From the entry euphenics
  • The hereditary attainder rule was very strict.1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 230. From the entry attainder
  • The position of the mangubat is not hereditary, in the sense that the son of a mangubat follows his father's profession.1962, Philippine Sociological Review, volumes 10-11, page 101. From the entry mangubat
  • At the risk of adding to this list, I propose plasmid as a generic term for any extrachromosomal hereditary determinant.1952 October, J. Lederberg, “Cell genetics and hereditary symbiosis”, in Physiological Reviews, volume 32, number 4, page 403. From the entry plasmid
  • The tinkers then formed a hereditary caste.1911, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Bunyan, John”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. From the entry caste
  • It’s an anachronistic assertion of divine right retooled to recognize that, in the electronic era, even hereditary rulers have to argue their relevance.2023 May 6, James Poniewozik, “Charles III Was Crowned King. But Can He Ever Be the Star?”, in The New York Times. From the entry anachronistic
  • Hereditary conscience, passing through this fierce crucible, lay levigable before Goethe, to be swept away into dust-hole or moulded into the image of reason.2020, Moncure D. Conway, The Mythology of the Devil. From the entry levigable
  • The term surname originally denoted an additional name—that is, one used in addition to an individual’s given name, with no implication that it was hereditary.2016, Patrick Hanks et al., The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, volume I, page xii. From the entry byname
  • In addition to this, many of the basic hereditary lexemes still used in Tetun-Terik have been replaced by lusisms (borrowings from the Portuguese) in Tetum-Praça.2009, Geoffrey Hull, Standard Tetum--English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin, Introduction, page x. From the entry lusism
  • Ringel, laying the foundations of, in particular, tame hereditary representation theory over arbitrary fields, a theory still at the centre of interest.2005, Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz, Helmut Lenzing, Representations of Algebras and Related Topics, American Mathematical Society, page ix. From the entry representation theory
  • In many mirasdari areas, there were no hereditary village headmen and the mirasdars as a group performed their functions, such as collecting the land revenue.1983, Tapan Raychaudhuri, The Cambridge Economic History of India: Volume 2, C.1751-c.1970. From the entry mirasdar
  • In the Kazanian society, the tarkhans constituted a privileged, landowning, and conditionally hereditary nobility which was exempted from taxes and most other obligations.1980, Manfred Späth, “Beiträge zur 4. Internationalen Konferenz über Altrussische Geschichte. Begunov, "Weisse Rus".”, in Forschungen zur…. From the entry tarkhan
  • Consequently, in order to learn of a cytoplasmic determinant serving a specific hereditary function, one must detect it in a mutated form.1965, Arnold Warren Ravin, The Evolution of Genetics. From the entry cytoplasmic determinant
  • Hereditary glaucoma belongs to the so-called homochronous diseases, by which is actually understood a herditary disease which manifests itself within a certain period of life.1947, E. Munksgaard, Leber's Disease; a Genealogic, Genetic and Clinical Study of 101 Cases of Retrobulbar Optic Neuritis in 20 Danish…. From the entry homochronous
  • For his success in recovering the city of Tang-yang, Hupeh, he was rewarded with the minor hereditary rank of Chʻing-chʻê tu-yü of the second class.1943, Arthur W. Hummel, Sr., “PI Yüan 畢沅”, in Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period (1644-1912), volume 1, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 623. From the entry Tang-yang
  • Researchers have access to different rodent models of systemic (diabetes, hypertension) and ocular (glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, nonarteritic ischemic optic neuropathy, hereditary optic nerve and retinal) diseases.2015 July 31, “Compact Laser Doppler Flowmeter (LDF) Fundus Camera for the Assessment of Retinal Blood Perfusion in Small Animals”, in…. From the entry nonarteritic
  • It is a widely accepted idea that archaic Greek elites consisted of ‘aristocrats’ who ruled by hereditary right and enjoyed a life of leisure thanks to their riches.2015, Alain Duplouy, “Genealogical and dynastic behaviour in archaic and classical Greece: two gentilician strategies”, in Nick Fisher…. From the entry gentilician
  • During the Ming period, a lama monk of the Chin-ch'uan Monastery named Hai-mai was invested as Monk of the Transformation with hereditary domain in the Chin-ch'uan region.1954, Herold J. Wiens, “Tribal Uprisings”, in Han Chinese Expansion in South China, Shoe String Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL…. From the entry Chin-ch'uan
  • One must also add the following: approximate equality of incomes (it need be no more than approximate), political democracy, and abolition of all hereditary privilege, especially in education.1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. II. From the entry socialism

Meaning of hereditary

  1. adjective Passed on as an inheritance, by last will or intestate.
  2. adjective Of a title, honor or right: legally granted to somebody's descendant after that person's death.
  3. adjective Of a person: holding a legally hereditary title or rank.

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Questions about hereditary in a sentence

How do you use hereditary in a sentence?
Hereditary is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “Duke is a hereditary title which was created in Norman times.”
What is a short sentence with hereditary?
“Haemophilia is hereditary in his family.”
What does hereditary mean?
Hereditary means passed on as an inheritance, by last will or intestate.

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