inborn tendency
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Betty's case furnishes an illustration of an inborn tendency, fostered neither by precept nor example, persistently to attempt the impossible, and to fret and fume when forced to discontinue.
From Why Worry? by George Lincoln Walton
But he suffered--had always suffered--from the jealous reserve which underlay her charm, her inborn tendency to secretiveness and intrigue.
From Lady Rose's Daughter by Mrs. Humphry Ward
From the foregoing paragraph, the logical conclusion would be that there is no instinct or inborn tendency that is primarily and distinctly moral as over against those that are social.
From How to Teach by George Drayton Strayer
These are emotions common to all members of the human race, and their expression is an inborn tendency.
From The Science of Human Nature A Psychology for Beginners by William Henry Pyle
An inborn tendency to scepticism did not prevent him from yielding to an influence which originally was farther removed from the inclinations of his soul than the vulgar bustle of everyday life.
From The Goose Man by Allen Wilson Porterfield
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