Both Uses
innate
in
To Kill a Mockingbird
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- 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. 90.2
- 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. 137.1 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(innate) of a quality: present at birth; or arising from within rather than having been learned or acquired
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)