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instinct
Part of speech: AdjectiveCharged or filled with; as, creatures instinct with life.
Part of speech: NounNatural impulse in animals; involuntary urging to any action; a natural tendency; as, an instinct for direction.
Usage examples "instinct":- It was perhaps their instinct and, for the time, their salvation to do so. - "The Healing of Nations and the Hidden Sources of Their Strife", Edward Carpenter.
- " I was nearly as sure myself- such confidence had I in the instinct of my little one. - "The Flight of the Shadow", George MacDonald.
- Therefore, consist should be consists; thus, " We do not know in what either reason or instinct consists." - "The Grammar of English Grammars", Goold Brown.