inburnt
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
inburnt (comparative more inburnt, superlative most inburnt)
- innate or hard-wired
- 1969, Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose:
- We have gone into the modern world with an inburnt knowledge of human limitations and with a sense of mystery which could not have developed in our first state of innocence
References[edit]
- “inburnt”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.