legacy hunter

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.07 in modern English

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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."

Calque of Latin hērēdipeta.

legacy hunters (plural) legacy-hunter (alternative)

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