The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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However, the real message that the new research carries is an exciting and hopeful one: that Indians have created a long-lasting civilisation from a variety of heredities and histories.
From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2018
In spare moments he surprises mice and guinea pigs, studying their heredities and acquired characteristics.
From Time Magazine Archive
Always some strong barbarians, endowed with rich, unspoiled heredities, caught the falling torch and bore it onward flaming high once more.
From The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy by Lothrop Stoddard
While some heredities withstand a poor environment, others are so poor that, no matter how good the environment, the machine cannot survive.
From Crime: Its Cause and Treatment by Clarence Darrow
I submit that each man and woman has two heredities: one the ordinary heredity from two parents and their forbears, the other more complex and purely mental—the tradition of sex.
From The Intelligence of Woman by Walter Lionel George
