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US
/ˈɪnˌbɔɹn/
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[ UK /ˈɪnbɔːn/ ]
[ UK /ˈɪnbɔːn/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- present at birth but not necessarily hereditary; acquired during fetal development
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normally existing at birth
mankind's connatural sense of the good
How To Use inborn In A Sentence
- Apparently some people have an inborn tendency to develop certain kinds of tumour.
- All human beings (except for the handful of deviants who call themselves naturalists) have an inborn sense of shame.
- Edgar Zilsel has pointed out that the term ingenium as characterizing extraordinary inborn talent was unknown in the Middle Ages (Zilsel, pp. 251ff.). MUSICAL GENIUS
- At the first mention of this fact the human mind naturally resists its admission: it recoils from the idea of inborn corruption; it cannot endure to have a mirror placed before it, which so clearly manifests its deformity; and it strives, from the beginning, to argue itself out of the feeling which lies so deeply ingrafted in the very consciousness of the soul. Private Thoughts Upon Religion and a Christian Life; to which is Added the Necessity and Advantage of Frequent Communion. Volume I.
- That shows once more in heaven two twinborn signs, A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI
- And all I had of thought or feeling, all that George Hammond had called my inborn poetry, came out that evening. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864
- On the subject of evil, she said, in a matter-of-fact tone but without apparent rancour, that people do not change, that cruelty is "inborn" and that the Holocaust "could happen again". Rewind radio: Private Passions; Start the Week; Exchanges at the Frontier; Taking a Stand
- She seems to have an inborn talent for physics.
- Early research has defined leadership in terms of innate individual traits: some people are somehow born with an inborn quality to lead.
- Other items of an interest at the forum will be susceptibilities and inborn anomalies, determination of the phenotype, genealogical study and risk assessment prevention.