Inborn; existing or having existed since birth.
Ironically, given France's innate reluctance to permit competition at home, the first breach in Renfe's monopoly came from SNCF offshoot Ouigo España in 2021.
Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired from experience.
innate ideas
Instinctive; coming from instinct.
Perhaps, from an innate desire of justification, sorrow always exaggerates itself.
To cause to exist; to call into being.
I never ſaw a foole leane : the chub-fac’d fop / Shines ſleek with full cramm’d fat of happineſſe, / VVhilſt ſtudious contemplation ſucks the juice / From wiſards cheekes : who making curious ſearch / For Natures ſecrets, the firſt innating cauſe / Laughs them to ſcorne, as man doth buſy Apes / VVhen they will zany men.
The adjective is first attested in the 1420's, the verb in 1602; from Middle English innat(e) (“innate, inborn”), borrowed from Latin innātus (“inborn, innate”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), ...
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