The Only Use of "innate" in "The Crucible"

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The Only Use

innate
in
The Crucible
(Edited)

To the best of their knowledge the American forest was the last place on earth that was not paying homage to God. For these reasons, among others, they carried about an air of innate resistance, even of persecution. Their fathers had, of course, been persecuted in England. So now they and their church found it necessary to deny any other sect its freedom, lest...
p. 5.7

innate = of a quality: existing as an inseparable part of something greater

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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)