trait

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Baillie gives Jamie naiveté and manages to leave open the question of how much of this trait is a reaction to a crappy life.

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  1. noun A distinguishing feature, as of a person's character. See Synonyms at quality.
  2. noun A genetically determined characteristic or condition: a recessive trait.
  3. noun A stroke with or as if with a pencil.
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  • Yet another trait is attributed to Jaques, which we must on no account forget. —  The Man Shakespeare
  • Having read Obama's first book, I'm convinced that this trait has been the key to his political success to date. —  Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
  • This trait is a most admirable one and is one of the chief foundations of whatever morality lies at the base of our Judaeo-Christian civilisation. —  California Literary Review
  • This trait is also a hallmark of Anil Kapoor as his film career is also a career of forgetting curve i.e. forgetting what has happened in the past and getting along in life.
  • Associated with this trait is a certain psychological callousness. —  The Civic Platform - A Political Journal of Ideas and Analysis
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English, shot, from Old French, something drawn, shot, from Latin tractus, a drawing out, line; see tract1.

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  1. from OF, trait, traict, a line, stroke, feature, tract, etc., French trait, a line, stroke, point, feature, fact, act, etc., =Provencal trait, trag, trah =Italian tratto, a line, etc., from Latin tractus, a drawing, course: see tract, n., of which trait is a doublet. Cf. also trace, orig. trais, plural of Old French trait.
 

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