"breed in the bone" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1825, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 30, in The Betrothed:",
          "text": "\"And for thy ill tongue, and worse practices, his lordship knows they are bred in the bone of thee.\"",
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          "ref": "1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe, chapter 19, in Uncle Tom's Cabin:",
          "text": "\"My father was a born aristocrat. I think, in some preexistent state, he must have been in the higher circles of spirits, and brought all his old court pride along with him; for it was ingrain, bred in the bone, though he was originally of poor and not in any way of noble family.\"",
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          "ref": "1985 December 8, “Books: Robertson Davies returns to a familiar, fulfilling venue”, in Chicago Tribune, retrieved 2011-07-12, page I33:",
          "text": "Davies meticulously establishes the background, the breeding in the bone, of his hero's life.",
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          "ref": "1998 May 29, Chris Darke, “Film: Famiglia feelings”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 2011-07-12:",
          "text": "The distinctiveness of Bellocchio's approach lay in his taking mental affliction, in this case epilepsy, and figuring it as symbolic of the self-immolating rage and frustration that the dysfunctional family breeds in the bone.",
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          "ref": "2008 August 13, James Graff, “Russia: In Search Of Unity”, in Time:",
          "text": "One principle ought to be bred in the bone of any European after the carnage of the 20th century: that no act of state bears such ominous consequences as changing a border by force.",
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        "To establish or ingrain firmly within someone's nature."
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        "(idiomatic, of a habit, personal characteristic, etc.) To establish or ingrain firmly within someone's nature."
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          "text": "\"My father was a born aristocrat. I think, in some preexistent state, he must have been in the higher circles of spirits, and brought all his old court pride along with him; for it was ingrain, bred in the bone, though he was originally of poor and not in any way of noble family.\"",
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          "ref": "1998 May 29, Chris Darke, “Film: Famiglia feelings”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 2011-07-12:",
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