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Literary notes about Innately (AI summary)

The word innately is used to signal qualities that are inherent and unchangeable—traits seen as part of a being’s essential nature. In literary works, it frequently emphasizes that a character or object possesses a definitive, intrinsic quality, whether it be virtuous, crude, or simply unalterable by circumstance. Authors deploy innately to contrast these built‐in attributes with acquired behaviors or external influences, noting, for example, that a gentleman’s refined nature or a woman’s surprising cruelty might be better understood as something deeply embedded from birth [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. In scientific and descriptive contexts, the term underlines natural variability or fixed aesthetic features, as when sterility or the texture of a surface is portrayed as inherent rather than modified by external factors [6, 7, 8].
  1. Being innately sincere, she continued bravely: "It seemed to me to be wrong not to want to better oneself, to rise higher...."
    — from The Soul of Susan Yellam by Horace Annesley Vachell
  2. Its citizens are mostly native born Americans, farmers and fishermen, innately religious and law-abiding.
    — from Sober by Act of Parliament by Fred A. (Fred Arthur) McKenzie
  3. The Commandant was not inwardly afraid; he was innately polite.
    — from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, September 19, 1917 by Various
  4. It guaranteed a man, so to speak—that is, it guaranteed a man to be innately a gentleman.
    — from The Adventures of Jimmie Dale by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard
  5. He himself being innately loyal, recognized and appreciated loyalty in others.
    — from A Sheaf of Bluebells by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
  6. That their fertility, besides being eminently susceptible to favourable and unfavourable conditions, is innately variable.
    — from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin
  7. Why should the degree of sterility be innately variable in the individuals of the same species?
    — from On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition) by Charles Darwin
  8. Pileus convex or nearly plane, dry, innately-fibrillose or minutely floccose-scaly, grayish-brown or blackish-brown.
    — from Toadstools, mushrooms, fungi, edible and poisonous; one thousand American fungi How to select and cook the edible; how to distinguish and avoid the poisonous, with full botanic descriptions. Toadstool poisons and their treatment, instructions to students, recipes for cooking, etc., etc. by Charles McIlvaine

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