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inveterate
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Definition:having a habit that is unlikely to change; ingrained; established
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“Oh, get along with you! An inveterate supporter of serfdom at heart, like all of them!” said Sviazhsky.
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Those of Anamabao are in league with the Dutch, as these afterwards told me, and with the natives of the kingdom of Kupang in Timor, over against them, in which the Dutch fort Concordia stands: but they are said to be inveterate enemies to their neighbours of Anabao.
William Dampier. A Voyage to New Holland, Etc. in the Year 1699
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[he] was reduced to a state of complete dependence on his father’s inveterate enemy;
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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I thought of her having said, "Matthew will come and see me at last when I am laid dead upon that table;" and I asked Herbert whether his father was so inveterate against her?
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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Odette failed to understand him, just as a morphinomaniac or a consumptive, each persuaded that he has been thrown back, one by some outside event, at the moment when he was just going to shake himself free from his inveterate habit,
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1] Swann’s Way
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