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inherent
/ɪnˈhɪɹənt/
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What does inherent mean?
adjective
- Naturally as part or consequence of something.
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It is inherent in the nature of sovereignty not to be amenable to the suit of an individual WITHOUT ITS CONSENT.
Agitation and mutability are inherent in the nature of democratic republics, just as stagnation and inertness are the law of absolute monarchies.
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And in this case, it is not at all surprising that the inherent sterility in the hybrids should have gone on increasing.
This organizing energy of character will be, for us, that something inherent in all life which tends to individualize each living thing.
In either case the success depends rather on clever maneuvering in the middle- game than on an advantage inherent to the opening.