Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who seeks to obtain a legacy or legacies by flattery, servility, or other artifice.
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Examples
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That poor dog shadows out the legacy-hunter or possible heir.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 363, March 28, 1829 Various
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GIFFORD. or the curse upon the legacy-hunter Pacuvius?
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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Whether he wrote in the character of a disappointed legacy-hunter or an empty town fop, of a crazy virtuoso or
The Bed-Book of Happiness Harold Begbie 1900
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Whether he wrote in the character of a disappointed legacy-hunter or an empty town fop, of a crazy virtuoso or
Famous Reviews R. Brimley Johnson 1899
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Two others of Lucian's favourite figures, the parasite and the legacy-hunter, exist still, no doubt, as they are sure to in every complex civilization; but their operations are now conducted with more regard to the decencies.
Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 of Samosata Lucian 1895
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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! "
Tales and Novels — Volume 09 Maria Edgeworth 1808
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