connatural
Americanadjective
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belonging to a person or thing by nature or from birth or origin; inborn.
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of the same or a similar nature.
adjective
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having a similar nature or origin
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congenital or innate; connate
Other Word Forms
- connaturality noun
- connaturally adverb
- connaturalness noun
Etymology
Origin of connatural
1585–95; < Medieval Latin connātūrālis, equivalent to Latin con- con- + nātūrālis natural
Example Sentences
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The Body of our Blessed Lord exists in the Eucharist without its connatural external extension and consequent impenetrability.
From Project Gutenberg
"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.
From Project Gutenberg
Thus the human mind has no criterion of truth within itself, no elements of knowledge which are connatural and inborn.
From Project Gutenberg
"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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