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Inherent   /ɪnhˈɪrənt/  /ɪnhˈɛrənt/   Listen
adjective
Inherent  adj.  Permanently existing in something; inseparably attached or connected; naturally pertaining to; innate; inalienable; as, polarity is an inherent quality of the magnet; the inherent right of men to life, liberty, and protection. "A most inherent baseness." "The sore disease which seems inherent in civilization."
Synonyms: Innate; inborn; native; natural; inbred; inwrought; inseparable; essential; indispensable.






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"Inherent" Quotes from Famous Books



... the case a puzzler; her rules for bringing up didn't seem to apply. She thought she would take time to think of it; and, by the way of gaining time, and in hopes of some indefinite moral virtues supposed to be inherent in dark closets, Miss Ophelia shut Topsy up in one till she had arranged her ...
— Uncle Tom's Cabin • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... of a work of art consists in the fact that it holds up a clear mirror to certain ideas inherent in the world in general; the beauty of a work of poetic art in particular is that it renders the ideas inherent in mankind, and thereby leads it to a knowledge of these ideas. The means which poetry uses for this end are the exhibition of significant ...
— The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; The Art of Controversy • Arthur Schopenhauer

... strongly gifted with the rural feeling. They possess a quick sensibility to the beauties of nature, and a keen relish for the pleasures and employments of the country. This passion seems inherent in them. Even the inhabitants of cities, born and brought up among brick walls and bustling streets, enter with facility into rural habits, and evince a tact for rural occupation. The merchant has his snug retreat in ...
— The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. • Washington Irving

... more than once, and if taxed annually at its full value the cost to the owner of holding the property would be so excessive as to require its hasty disposal. Assessors everywhere feel instinctively the inherent injustice of taxing a growing crop at a high annual rate, and violate the law and their oaths of office with impunity. The result is there are as many systems of forest taxation in the State as there are assessors, and ...
— Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest • Edward Tyson Allen

... tend—their proper place, in short—while the upper region is the proper place of light things; and to generalise the facts observed by saying that bodies, which are free to move, tend towards their proper places. All these seem to be natural motions, dependent on the inherent faculties, or tendencies, of bodies themselves. But there are other motions which are artificial or violent, as when a stone is thrown from the hand, or is knocked by another stone in motion. In such cases as these, for example, when a stone is cast from the hand, the ...
— The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century • T.H. (Thomas Henry) Huxley


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