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inveterate
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inveterate /in·vet·er·ate/ (-vet´er-āt) confirmed and chronic; long-established and difficult to cure.
in·vet·er·ate (n-vtr-t)
adj.
1. Firmly and long established; deep-rooted.
2. Persisting in an ingrained habit; habitual.

in·veter·a·cy (-r--s) n.

inveterate [in-vet´er-it]
confirmed and chronic; long-established and difficult to cure.

inveterate
confirmed and chronic; long-established and difficult to cure.


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A mentality capable of thinking in subordinate clauses, of qualifying tentative hypotheses, is a different thing from that which rarely gets beyond simple statements, and which usually expresses itself in expostulations and sudden retractions, as we do with awkward inveterateness in speech.
 
 
 
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