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congenital
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Definition:present since birth; innate
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The lawyer was perplexed and worried for a moment, and I found it in my heart to pity the wretched little creature. Then he began to whine. I do believe his whine was congenital. He was a man beaten at birth.
Jack London. The Iron Heel
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a sudden access of that mental lethargy which was, with him, congenital, intermittent and providential, happened, at that moment, to extinguish every particle of light in his brain,
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1] Swann’s Way
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whether the inhibition in its turn were due to conjugal vexations or to a parsimony of the balance as well as whether the prohibition proceeded from defects congenital or from proclivities acquired.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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