inborn tendency

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Bullying as an original tendency seems to add nothing to the possibilities of development, but every other inborn tendency has its value.

From How to Teach by Strayer, George Drayton

She has all her life been intensely religious, with a strong leaning toward pietism, and illness has still further developed this inborn tendency.

From Norwegian Life by Clough, Ethlyn T.

At last she felt his inborn tendency; the early religious background which influenced his temperament.

From The Higher Court by Daggett, Mary Stewart

In fact, Professor Cook has recently suggested that the inborn tendency to variation is sufficient in itself to account for evolution, this tendency being either repressed or stimulated as external conditions are stable or variable.

From Animals of the Past by Lucas, Frederic A.

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 Walton, George Lincoln