Definition of "hereditarily" [he•red•i•ta•ri•ly]

• In a hereditary manner (adverb)
• With regard to inheritance (adverb)

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• "In Nazi Germany, a law was passed permitting abortions for those deemed “hereditarily ill,” (basically those they experimented on in the camps) while women considered of “German stock” were specifically prohibited from having abortions."
• "Everything was done according to protocols set forth by the 1931 Engagement and Marriage Order aimed at ensuring that the SS would remain “a hereditarily healthy clan of a strictly Nordic German sort” and sanctioned by the Main Office of Race and Settlement."
• "Viewing it from all angles the point is, it is discriminative criteria to reject siblings of non Jewish mothers on the logical basis that no female line could possibly hereditarily claim pure Jewish roots going back five thousand years."