name, noun, verb ·Very common ·Middle school level
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"I oft admire How Nature, wise and frugal, could commit Such disproportions."
"Vliss.: ... One touch of nature makes the whole world kin, That all with one consent praise new-borne gaudes, Though they are made and moulded of things past, And goe to dust, that is a little guilt, More laud then guilt ore-dusted."
"For the French, it was impossible for them to serve her in that nature."
"...One Hundred of each Nature of Case-Shot..."
"Any such corrasiue, sharpe or eager medicine... as the said H. shal think his nature is vnable to suffer..."
"He withdrew from the Company to ease Nature."
"She marvelled "What he saw in such a baby "As that prim, silent, cold Aurora Raby?" ...Why Adeline had this slight prejudice ...For me appears a question far too nice, Since Adeline was liberal by Nature; But Nature’s Nature, and has more caprices Than I have time, or will to take to pieces..."
"Lady. ... Come you Spirits, That tend on mortall thoughts, vnsex me here, ...make thick my blood, Stop vp th'accesse, and passage to Remorse, That no compunctious visitings of Nature Shake my fell purpose..."
"If a man want to break his wife from some man, he steals this dishcloth... an' he ketches her nachure in this dishcloth..."
"... offer her the Horse, and... wash her Nature with cold Water ..."
"To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran; And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man."
"His stern tone and loud voice belied his inner sensitivity and caring nature."
The way things are, the totality of all things in the physical universe and their order, especially the physical world in contrast to spiritual realms and flora and fauna as distinct from human conventions, art, and technology.
Common synonyms include: air, all, all being, all creation, allness, anatomy.
His stern tone and loud voice belied his inner sensitivity and caring nature.
Pronounced /ˈneɪ̯.tʃə(ɹ)/.
From Middle English nature, natur, from Old French nature, from Latin nātūra (“birth, origin, natural constitution or quality”), future participle from perfect passive participle (g)natus (“born”), from deponent verb (g)nasci (“to be born, originate”) + future participle suffix -urus. Displaced native Middle English erd (“character, nature, disposition”) from Old English eard (compare German Art (“nature, character, kind, type”)); and Middle English kynde (“character, disposition, nature”) from Old English ġecynd. More at kind.