legacy hunter

noun

One that strives after an inheritance.

OriginLatin hērēdipeta →
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Meanings

nounlegacy hunter (plural legacy hunters)

plural legacy hunters · alternative legacy-hunter

  1. One that strives after an inheritance.

    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.

    1837, John William Kaye, chapter XIX, in Doveton, volume 2, page 249
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    “[…] 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!”

    1817, Maria Edgeworth, chapter IX, in Ormond

Origin

  1. Latinhērēdipeta
  2. Englishlegacy hunter

Calque of Latin hērēdipeta.

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Chicago

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