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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
instinctive/ɪnˈstɪŋktɪv/

▶adjective relating to or prompted by instinct.

■ apparently natural or automatic.

– derivatives
instinctively adverb.

'instinctive' also found in these Oxford entries:

animality - emotion - fight - flinch - Freemasonry - gut - id - intuitive - nose - play - pleasure principle - primeval - primitive - primitivism - second nature - spontaneous - unconditioned

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benevolent impulses_,_ of that instinctive morality

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