from G5453; growth (by germination or expansion), i.e. (by implication) natural production (lineal descent); by extension, a genus or sort; figuratively, native disposition, constitution or usage:—(man-)kind, nature(-al).
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- nature
- the nature of things, the force, laws, order of nature
- as opposed to what is monstrous, abnormal, perverse
- as opposed what has been produced by the art of man: the natural branches, i.e. branches by the operation of nature
- birth, physical origin
- a mode of feeling and acting which by long habit has become nature
- the sum of innate properties and powers by which one person differs from others, distinctive native peculiarities, natural characteristics: the natural strength, ferocity, and intractability of beasts