[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The state or quality of being connatural.
a. 1628. Preston, New Covt. (1630), 119. Able … to carry it on with such facilitie and connaturalnesse to the ways of his Commandements.
1651. Walton, Life Wotton (1670), 18. There was in Sir Henry such a propensity and connaturalness to the Italian language.
1665. D. Lloyd, State Worthies (1766), II. 357. Going yearly to Bocton for the connaturalness of that air.
a. 1683. Whichcote, Disc. (1703), III. 194. There is a connaturalness between Divine Truth and the mind and soul of man.
