inburnt

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English

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Etymology

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From in +‎ burnt.

Adjective

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inburnt (comparative more inburnt, superlative most inburnt)

  1. 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

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