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].
- 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 - 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 - The Commandant was not inwardly afraid; he was innately polite.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, September 19, 1917 by Various - 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 - He himself being innately loyal, recognized and appreciated loyalty in others.
— from A Sheaf of Bluebells by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness - 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 - 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 - 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