heritance
Example Sentences
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"The heritance of an acquired characteristic was no longer an unsupported theory," he said.
From Time Magazine Archive
The heritance of acquired malignant characteristics would thus be defeated before it could begin.
From Time Magazine Archive
For reasons of "in heritance and maternal feeling," un married WAC Sergeant Dorothy Libertini, 56, sought to adopt unmarried WAC Captain Frances Hagler, 35.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wouldst re-enact the Barmecide, And taunt our wretchedness With visioned feast, and song, and dance,— While, daily, our grim heritance Is famine and distress?
From The Baron's Yule Feast: A Christmas Rhyme by Thomas Cooper
Only he had the good sense to die before he had spent all his heritance.
From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
