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

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 Pyle, William Henry

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.

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

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

From The Higher Court by Daggett, Mary Stewart