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Connatural

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Innate; inborn.

adj. Related or similar in nature; cognate.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Similar in nature.

adj. inborn; inherent; natural

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Connected by nature; united in nature; inborn; inherent; natural.

adj. Partaking of the same nature.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Of the same nature; like in quality or kind; closely related or assimilated.

Belonging by birth or nature; intimately pertaining; connate; inborn.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. similar in nature

adj. normally existing at birth

Word Usage

"But whether the obedience of a pious life, performed out of a belief or persuasion of the truth of the gospel, ought to pass for that faith which justifies, or only for the effect or consequent of it, yet certainly it is such an effect as issues by a kind of connatural, constant efficiency and result from it."

Equivalent

similar native

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

inborn inherent natural

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