heritance

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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

"The heritance of an acquired characteristic was no longer an unsupported theory," he said.

From Time Magazine Archive

The French monarch knew naught but to debauch his heritance; the French courtier intrigued and plundered; the French peasant, dogged and sullen in his long suffering, dragged out his miserable existence.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 by Various

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 Cooper, Thomas