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Definition of Hereditarians
1. hereditarian [n] - See also: hereditarian
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hereditarians
Literary usage of Hereditarians
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fighting for the Good Cause: Reflections on Francis Galton's Legacy to by Gerald Sweeney (2001)
"However remarkably, on at least two occasions such conditions did exist, and
deeply-committed American hereditarians elaborated in detail the deficiencies ..."
2. Health and Disease in Relation to Marriage and the Married State by Hermann Senator, Siegfried Kaminer (1904)
"hereditarians, degenerates.—But this is not all the danger to which hereditary
predisposition subjects the offspring. It happens by no means rarely, ..."
3. Health and Disease in Relation to Marriage and the Married State by Hermann Senator, Siegfried Kaminer (1905)
"The marriage of hereditarians and degenerates.—What has been stated with regard
to the prohibition of marriage with an insane individual applies also to ..."
4. Dis-Integrating Multiculturalismby Mute by Mute (2006)
"This certainly sounds like the state of affairs that contemporary hereditarians
would like. But the dominant ideology at present ..."
5. Heredity and Environment in the Development of Men by Edwin Grant Conklin (1922)
"We were once taught that acts, if oft repeated, become habits, and that habits
determine character; hereditarians of the stricter sort now teach that acts, ..."
6. Punishment and Reformation: An Historical Sketch of the Rise of the by Frederick Howard Wines (1895)
"The hereditarians naturally divide all criminals into two great groups: those in
whom the criminal instinct is derived from one's ancestors, near or remote, ..."
7. Proceedings of the ... Annual Congress of Correction of the American by American Correctional Association (1896)
"But mother Jukes and her children have committed vastly more crimes in the hands
of the hereditarians, than they ever committed in actual life. ..."
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