connatural
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- adjective Of the same nature; like in quality or kind; closely related or assimilated.
- adjective Belonging by birth or nature; intimately pertaining; connate; inborn.
Examples
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But whether the obedience of a pious life, performed out of a belief or persuasion of the truth of the gospel, ought to pass for that faith which justifies, or only for the effect or consequent of it, yet certainly it is such an effect as issues by a kind of connatural, constant efficiency and result from it.
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Benedict uses a low-key version of gift theory to promote the idea that connatural with the divine plan are forms of economic activity with a built-in element of the gratuitous: in effect, preferential treatment by business in dealing with the poor.
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Peace is natural, happiness is connatural in our species.
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Epicurus himself, in his Second Book against Theophrastus, affirming that colors are not connatural to bodies, but are engendered there according to certain situations and positions with respect to the sight of man, says: “For this reason a body is no more colored than destitute of color.”
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Now no action is perfectly produced by an active power, unless it is made connatural to that power by means of some form which is the principle of action.
Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas
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Wherefore this pleasure is very desirable as regards the sensitive appetite, both on account of the intensity of the pleasure, and because such like concupiscence is connatural to man.
Note
The word 'connatural' is formed from the prefix 'con-' and 'natural'.
