All 5 Uses of
innate
in
The Mayor of Casterbridge
- This unsophisticated girl did it by an innate perceptiveness that was almost genius.
Chpt 14 *innate = present at birth; or arising from within rather than having been learned or acquired
- But other ideas reigned then: Henchard's creed was that proper young girls wrote ladies'-hand—nay, he believed that bristling characters were as innate and inseparable a part of refined womanhood as sex itself.†
Chpt 20
- Perceiving that it was Elizabeth she lapsed into ease, and came across to her with a reckless skip that innate grace only prevented from being boisterous.†
Chpt 22
- That it was not innate caprice he was more and more certain.†
Chpt 26
- Some, indeed many, must have been recently purchased; and though he encouraged her to buy in reason, he had no notion that she indulged her innate passion so extensively in proportion to the narrowness of their income.†
Chpt 42
Definition:
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(innate) of a quality: present at birth; or arising from within rather than having been learned or acquired