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of a quality: present at birth; or arising from within rather than having been learned or acquired

innate = present at birth

innate = present at birth

...the closer psychologists look at the careers of the gifted, the smaller the role innate talent seems to play and the bigger the role preparation seems to play.
Malcolm Gladwell -- Outliers

innate = a quality present at birth or arising from within rather than having been learned or acquired

innate = present at birth

So he is under no illusions as to the innate refinement of women; but all the more reason to safeguard the purity of those still pure.
Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace

innate = of a quality: present at birth; or arising from within rather than having been learned or acquired

What I saw that morning persuaded me that the scrivener was the victim of an innate and incurable disorder.
Herman Melville -- Bartleby, the Scrivener: a Story of Wall Street

innate = of a quality: present at birth; or arising from within rather than having been acquired

How much of my delight in all beautiful things is innate, and how much is due to her influence, I can never tell.
Helen Keller -- Story of My Life

innate = naturally a part of me (present at birth)

I was restrained and hampered by my innate sense of justice.
Agatha Christie -- And Then There Were None

innate = inner and inseparable

I believe in our innate potential for brutality.
Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe II

innate = of a quality: present at birth or existing as an inseparable part of something greater

By feeling that one has some innate superiority—it may be wealth, or rank, a straight nose, or...
Virginia Woolf -- A Room of One's Own

innate = present at birth or existing as a quality inseparable

This unsophisticated girl did it by an innate perceptiveness that was almost genius.
Thomas Hardy -- The Mayor of Casterbridge

innate = present at birth; or arising from within rather than having been learned or acquired

And what better time to explore what's natural and innate and waiting to emerge than in springtime, the season so suited to adolescence.
Ron Suskind -- A Hope in the Unseen

innate = present at birth

...full of innate sympathy...quickness to perceive good in others...vision of the brotherhood of man.
E.M. Forster -- A Room With A View

innate = an inseparable part (of her)

Once, words had rendered Liesel useless, but now, when she sat on the floor, with the mayor's wife at her husband's desk, she felt an innate sense of power.
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief

innate = inherent (coming from within her; something that had become an inseparable part of her)

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.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

innate = arising from within

And Redd would have been queen—she would have ruled with all the innate power she possessed—if not for the presumption of her sister.
Frank Beddor -- The Looking Glass Wars

innate = of a quality: present at birth; or arising from within rather than having been learned or acquired

innately = naturally (from within, not requiring explanation)

intellectual convictions which you, in your unexampled honesty of soul, accept unquestionably as also innate and natural and true.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot

innate = existing as an inseparable part of something greater

innate = present at birth or existing as an inseparable part of being human

When they are gone you must fall back upon your own innate strength, upon your own capacity for faithfulness.
Joseph Conrad -- Heart of Darkness

innate = of a quality: present at birth or existing as an inseparable part of something greater

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