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Inbred   /ˈɪnbrˌɛd/   Listen
Inbred

adjective
1.
Produced by inbreeding.
2.
Normally existing at birth.  Synonyms: connatural, inborn.






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"Inbred" Quotes from Famous Books



... her. His mother, his family would think it madness. No doubt it was madness. Yet, as far as he could explain his impulse himself, it depended on certain fundamental facts in his own nature—it was in keeping with his deepest character. He had an inbred love of the difficult, the unconventional in life, of all that piqued and stimulated his own superabundant consciousness of resource and power. And he had a tenderness of feeling, a gift of chivalrous pity, only known to the few, which was in truth always hungrily on the watch, ...
— The Marriage of William Ashe • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... at first been mere compliance with his father's will and the family interests, he had become sufficiently convinced of Christian truth not to take part with his own people in the final struggle. Still, however, the inbred abhorrence of idolatry had influenced his manner of worship, and when, after half a lifetime, Granada had fallen, and the Inquisition had begun to take cognisance of new Christians from among the Moors as well as the Jews, there were not lacking spies to report the ...
— The Armourer's Prentices • Charlotte M. Yonge



Words linked to "Inbred" :   interbred, outbred, native, inborn



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