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connatural
[kuh-nach-er-uhl, -nach-ruhl]
adjective
belonging to a person or thing by nature or from birth or origin; inborn.
of the same or a similar nature.
connatural
/ əˈæʃəə /
adjective
having a similar nature or origin
congenital or innate; connate
Other 51Թ Forms
- connaturally adverb
- connaturality noun
- connaturalness noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of connatural1
Example Sentences
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.
"No one knew better than Capek that the cultivation of the soil and cultivation of the spirit are connatural," Harrison writes.
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.
Thus the human mind has no criterion of truth within itself, no elements of knowledge which are connatural and inborn.
"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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