inborn tendency
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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 Porterfield, Allen Wilson
Of these three forces, the first is the result of an inborn tendency to deviate from the ancestral type; an orderly process with a definite intention, by no means a mere chance fluctuation.
From Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women by Various
The neuropath is the individual with an inborn tendency to the neurosis.
From Applied Psychology for Nurses by Porter, Mary F.
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 Strayer, George Drayton
But it suffered from an inborn tendency to exuberance which the long 464 practice of oratory had confirmed.
From Studies in Contemporary Biography by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount
