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legacy hunter

noun

Etymology

Calque of Latin hērēdipeta.

  1. derived from hērēdipeta

Definitions

  1. One that strives after an inheritance.

    • “[…] I am a great hunter, but not legacy hunter, that is a kind of hunting I despise—and I wish every hunter of that kind may be thrown out, or thrown off, and may never be in at the death!”
    • I am a legacy-hunter, a parasite, a rich man's minion. I bitterly despise myself already. The very servants will sneer at me; the lowest groom in the stable will point at me.

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