connatural

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Wherefore this pleasure is very desirable as regards the sensitive appetite, both on account of the intensity of the pleasure, and because such like concupiscence is connatural to man.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Again, the individual corporeal substance can, absolutely speaking, exist without its connatural accident of external or local extension; this latter can, absolutely speaking, exist without its connatural substance;158 therefore these are absolutely and really distinct.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter

"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."

From Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries by Jones, Rufus Matthew

Neither, therefore, can the repose of the animal appetite, which is pleasure, be elsewhere than in something connatural.

From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

It is that primitive life which was most connatural to the soul of man, which sin did deprive us of.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh