inborn tendency

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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

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.

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

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

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

From The Higher Court by Daggett, Mary Stewart