inborn tendency

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Betty's case furnishes an illustration of an inborn tendency, fostered neither by precept nor example, persistently to attempt the impossible, and to fret and fume when forced to discontinue.

From Why Worry? by Walton, George Lincoln

Of these three forces, the first is the result of an inborn tendency to deviate from the ancestral type; an orderly process with a definite intention, by no means a mere chance fluctuation.

From Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women by Various

The neuropath is the individual with an inborn tendency to the neurosis.

From Applied Psychology for Nurses by Porter, Mary F.

Say, rather, that the species of necessity which consists in character and inborn tendency is stronger than any resolution to run counter to it.

From Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 by Various

These are emotions common to all members of the human race, and their expression is an inborn tendency.

From The Science of Human Nature A Psychology for Beginners by Pyle, William Henry