Both Uses of
innate
in
The Age of Innocence
- Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them.†
Chpt 13 *
- Her innate dignity would always keep her from making the gift abjectly; and a day might even come (as it once had) when she would find strength to take it altogether back if she thought she were doing it for his own good.†
Chpt 20
Definition:
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(innate) of a quality: present at birth; or arising from within rather than having been learned or acquired