innate

• The tendency to suicide was innate, and it was that which made the murder possible. —  When Last I Died - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 13: 1941
• Smoothing down his new violet silk waistcoat, Percy cast a knowledgeable eye over Jack's elegance, innate, as he well knew-and sighed. —  A Lady of Expectations
• Natural killer, or NK, cells have until now been classified as part of what is known as the innate immune system. —  Signs of the Times
• What that something is depends partly on their innate, and partly on their acquired, desires If the wealth resulting from prosperous industry is to be spent upon the gratification of unworthy desires, if the increasing perfection of manufacturing processes is to be accompanied by an increasing debasement of those who carry them on, I do not see the good of industry and prosperity Now it is perfectly true that men's views of what is desirable depend upon their characters; and that the innate proclivities to which we give that name are not touched by any amount of instruction. —  Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
• For the love of knowledge is innate, and the people would necessarily seek for and find amusement in such reading as could not fail to instruct and educate, to revive this love of knowledge, and fan it into an ardent flame. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

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