inveterate
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1. inveterate - Adjective
2. inveterate - Verb
3. inveterate - Adverb
4. inveterate - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Old; long-established.
Firmly established by long continuance; obstinate; deep-rooted; of long standing; as, an inveterate disease; an inveterate abuse.
Having habits fixed by long continuance; confirmed; habitual; as, an inveterate idler or smoker.
To fix and settle by long continuance.
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Men met each other with erected look, The steps were higher that they took Friends to congratulate their friends made haste, And long inveterate foes saluted as they pass'd.
When performing an autopsy, even the most inveterate spiritualist would have to question where the soul is.
I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and [illegible] liar who has never hesitated to give truth the form he felt the occasion demanded.
I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking.
I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything.
Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by difference of sentiment in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated.