inborn tendency

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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

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.

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

I know it is with certain human beings as with horses, some trick of the blood they have, some inborn tendency; the more their wants are satisfied, the more their wantonness will out.

From Hiero by Dakyns, Henry Graham

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