inveterate
adjective
settled or confirmed in a habit, practice, feeling, or the like.
inveterateness
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a word derived from
inveterate.
Example Sentences
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And oh, wasn't this a far, far worse sort of inveterateness than the Pritchard sort?
From Elsie Marley, Honey by Joslyn Gray
Brother, is not this Gaul that you lay waste with as much inveterateness as the conquerors themselves, is she not our dearly beloved country, our mother?
From The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres by Eugène Sue
