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English
Etymology
Calque of Latin hērēdipeta.
Noun
legacy hunter (plural legacy hunters)
- One that strives after an inheritance.
1817, Maria Edgeworth, chapter IX, in Ormond:“ […] 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!”
1837, John William Kaye, chapter XIX, in Doveton, volume 2, page 249: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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