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Capable of inheriting or receiving by inheritance.

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ultra

Part of Speech: Noun

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1. Going beyond others, or beyond due limit; extreme; fanatical; uncompromising; as, an ultra reformer; ultra measures.

Part of Speech: noun

1. One who advocates extreme measures; an ultraist; an extremist; a radical.

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Her hat, with its huge hatpins and ultra- fashionable height, was hideous. - "The Box with the Broken Seals", E. Phillips Oppenheim.
And another tower with its faint purple beam was using the ultra- violet. - "Tarrano the Conqueror", Raymond King Cummings.
As a reminiscence of George Sand, Luccia to this day pretends that she prefers to smoke cigars to cigarettes, though, as a matter of fact, she has never smoked either, and has, indeed, an ultra- feminine detestation of tobacco- even in the form of her husband's pipe. - "Vanishing Roads and Other Essays", Richard Le Gallienne.

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