connatural

How To Use connatural In A Sentence

• Thus it is plain that it is the connatural mode of the human soul to receive knowledge as a habit.
• And then the flesh, as it is the greatest retardment in good, it is the greatest incitement to evil, it is a bosom enemy, that betrays us to Satan, it is near us and connatural to us. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
• This a priori orientation toward being - with its implicit pre-conceptual awareness of being by connatural affinity and desire, as we know a good by being drawn to it - is a genuine a priori presence of being to the human mind constitutive of its very nature as a dynamic faculty.
• Innate is a word he poorly plays upon: the right word, though less used, is connatural.
• Accordingly it belongs to the wisdom that is an intellectual virtue to pronounce right judgment about Divine things after reason has made its inquiry, but it belongs to wisdom as a gift of the Holy Ghost to judge aright about them on account of connaturality with them: thus Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
• Now this sympathy or connaturality for Divine things is the result of charity, which unites us to God, according to 1 Cor. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
• That's why photos, in contrast, make great backgrounds and fills for sharp-edged text and geometric primitives, and that's why soft gradients and blurring seem so connatural to digitized photography.
• The family is connatural to man and was instituted by God.
• This artistic knowledge is an instance of what Maritain calls, in general, knowledge though connaturality; it is a kind of 'creative intuition' that arises out of "the free creativity of the spirit" (Creative Intuition, p. 112; Natural Law, p. 18). Jacques Maritain
• But her limbs have internalized the aesthetic of the dance; beautiful movement, or at least beautiful movement of that kind, has become connatural.