connatural

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In conscious agencies this inclination or tendency to actions conformable or connatural to their being is not always in act; it is aroused by conscious cognition, perception, or imagination of a good, and operates intermittently.

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"No one knew better than Capek that the cultivation of the soil and cultivation of the spirit are connatural," Harrison writes.

From Washington Post

How connatural this strange, unreasoning, reckless courage was with their regenerate state is shown most signally in St. Paul, as having been a convert of later vocation.

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The idea of God is connatural to the human mind.

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"The Truths of God are connatural to the soul of man, and the soul of man makes no more resistance to them than the air does to light."

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