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Definition of connatural in English: connaturaladjective kəˈnatʃ(ə)r(ə)lkəˈnætʃ(ə)rəl Belonging naturally; innate. 天生的,固有的,先天的 connatural qualities of the human character Example sentencesExamples - The family is connatural to man and was instituted by God.
- Hence, this law is promulgated through our connatural knowledge, and it is called ‘natural’ because obedience to it leads us toward the good that we desire by nature.
- Thus it is plain that it is the connatural mode of the human soul to receive knowledge as a habit.
- As man, He was the ‘perfect connatural principle of all forces of supernatural activity.’
- But her limbs have internalized the aesthetic of the dance; beautiful movement, or at least beautiful movement of that kind, has become connatural.
- Innate is a word he poorly plays upon: the right word, though less used, is connatural.
- That's why photos, in contrast, make great backgrounds and fills for sharp-edged text and geometric primitives, and that's why soft gradients and blurring seem so connatural to digitized photography.
- In fact, in the post-lapsarian situation, even ‘connatural’ moral actions require some sort of gracious assistance.
- This a priori orientation toward being - with its implicit pre-conceptual awareness of being by connatural affinity and desire, as we know a good by being drawn to it - is a genuine a priori presence of being to the human mind constitutive of its very nature as a dynamic faculty.
- What he calls not innate, but connatural qualities of the human character, was, during the latter part of the last century, entirely rejected; but of late there appears a tendency to return to the notion consecrated by antiquity.
- Since this change of perspective cannot be obtained in years but in generations, we believe in connatural pedagogics.
- The common principles of prudence, indeed, are connatural to man; but other principles of a practical kind are acquired by experience or instruction.
Synonyms inherent, innate, inborn, inbred, congenital, natural, native, constitutional, built-in, ingrained, deep-rooted, inseparable, permanent, indelible, ineradicable, ineffaceable
Derivativesadverb In this way, music is a natural and universal language which is not learned, but immediately and connaturally felt. Example sentencesExamples - This is actually a distortion of the female personality, which is destined to unfold connaturally in motherhood.
- Thus we begin, connaturally as it were, to experience the presence of God in all things, the presence of Christ in each person we meet.
- Women can integrate the contemplative and active connaturally through maternity and the works of mercy that are associated with domestic life.
- For the pre-capitalist man, this ‘limitless’ material desire is seen as irrational, since he connaturally recognizes that he has a strictly limited number of needs to be satisfied in the measure demanded by his station in life.
OriginLate 16th century: from late Latin connaturalis, from con- 'together'+ Latin naturalis 'natural'. Definition of connatural in US English: connaturaladjectivekəˈnaCH(ə)rəlkəˈnætʃ(ə)rəl Belonging naturally; innate. 天生的,固有的,先天的 connatural qualities of the human character Example sentencesExamples - Hence, this law is promulgated through our connatural knowledge, and it is called ‘natural’ because obedience to it leads us toward the good that we desire by nature.
- In fact, in the post-lapsarian situation, even ‘connatural’ moral actions require some sort of gracious assistance.
- Thus it is plain that it is the connatural mode of the human soul to receive knowledge as a habit.
- That's why photos, in contrast, make great backgrounds and fills for sharp-edged text and geometric primitives, and that's why soft gradients and blurring seem so connatural to digitized photography.
- What he calls not innate, but connatural qualities of the human character, was, during the latter part of the last century, entirely rejected; but of late there appears a tendency to return to the notion consecrated by antiquity.
- But her limbs have internalized the aesthetic of the dance; beautiful movement, or at least beautiful movement of that kind, has become connatural.
- Since this change of perspective cannot be obtained in years but in generations, we believe in connatural pedagogics.
- As man, He was the ‘perfect connatural principle of all forces of supernatural activity.’
- Innate is a word he poorly plays upon: the right word, though less used, is connatural.
- The family is connatural to man and was instituted by God.
- The common principles of prudence, indeed, are connatural to man; but other principles of a practical kind are acquired by experience or instruction.
- This a priori orientation toward being - with its implicit pre-conceptual awareness of being by connatural affinity and desire, as we know a good by being drawn to it - is a genuine a priori presence of being to the human mind constitutive of its very nature as a dynamic faculty.
Synonyms inherent, innate, inborn, inbred, congenital, natural, native, constitutional, built-in, ingrained, deep-rooted, inseparable, permanent, indelible, ineradicable, ineffaceable
OriginLate 16th century: from late Latin connaturalis, from con- ‘together’ + Latin naturalis ‘natural’. |