hereditarily

English

Etymology

From hereditary +‎ -ly.

Adverb

hereditarily (not comparable)

1. In a hereditary manner.
   • 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 2, in The Whisperer in Darkness:

     After all, there might be some queer and perhaps hereditarily misshapen outcasts in those shunned hills, even though no such race of star-born monsters as folklore claimed.

2. With regard to inheritance.