inborn tendency
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The neuropath is the individual with an inborn tendency to the neurosis.
From Applied Psychology for Nurses by Porter, Mary F.
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
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
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
Say, rather, that the species of necessity which consists in character and inborn tendency is stronger than any resolution to run counter to it.
From Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 by Various
