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connatural

[kuh-nach-er-uhl, -nach-ruhl]

adjective

  1. belonging to a person or thing by nature or from birth or origin; inborn.

  2. of the same or a similar nature.



connatural

/ əˈæʃəə /

adjective

  1. having a similar nature or origin

  2. congenital or innate; connate

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Other 51Թ Forms

  • connaturally adverb
  • connaturality noun
  • connaturalness noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of connatural1

1585–95; < Medieval Latin DzԲū, equivalent to Latin con- con- + ū natural
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In conscious agencies this inclination or tendency to actions conformable or connatural to their being is not always in act; it is aroused by conscious cognition, perception, or imagination of a good, and operates intermittently.

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"No one knew better than Capek that the cultivation of the soil and cultivation of the spirit are connatural," Harrison writes.

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How connatural this strange, unreasoning, reckless courage was with their regenerate state is shown most signally in St. Paul, as having been a convert of later vocation.

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Thus the human mind has no criterion of truth within itself, no elements of knowledge which are connatural and inborn.

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"The Truths of God are connatural to the soul of man, and the soul of man makes no more resistance to them than the air does to light."

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