Both Uses of
innate
in
To Kill a Mockingbird
- [explaining why she had been cussing] I was proceeding on the dim theory, aside from the innate attractiveness of such words, that if Atticus discovered I had picked them up at school he wouldn't make me go.
p. 104..9innate = arising from their nature
- Jem's face showed brief indecision on the ethics of withholding his own dime, but his innate courtesy won and he shifted his dime to his pocket.
p. 160..1 *innate = arising from within
Definition:
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(innate) of a quality: present at birth; or arising from within rather than having been learned or acquired