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noun

Inveteracy n.

Firm establishment by long continuance; firmness or deep-rooted obstinacy of any quality or state acquired by time; as, the inveteracy of custom, habit, or disease; usually in a bad sense; as, the inveteracy of prejudice or of error. "An inveteracy of evil habits that will prompt him to contract more."

Malignity; spitefulness; virulency. "The rancor of pamphlets, the inveteracy of epigrams, and the mortification of lampoons."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... practice of ending the lection for the ivth Sunday after Pentecost in that unauthorized manner.(411) But it is not only in cursive MSS. that these words are found. They are met with also in the Codex Sinaiticus ({HEBREW LETTER ALEF}): a witness at once to the inveteracy of Liturgical usage in the ivth century of our aera, and to the corruptions which the "Codex omnium antiquissimus" will no doubt have inherited from a yet ...

— The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark • John Burgon

... unpopular measures of domestic administration, it will undergo temporary fermentations from the turbulent ingredients inherent in its own constitution Tumults are excited, and faction kindled into rage and inveteracy, by incidents of the most frivolous nature. At this juncture the metropolis of England was divided and discomposed in a surprising manner, by a dispute in itself of so little consequence to the community, that it could not deserve a place in a general history, if it did not serve to convey a characteristic ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. - From William and Mary to George II. • Tobias Smollett

... at Cambridge, but here, there have been people wise enough to think me too free with the King of Prussia! A newspaper has talked of my known inveteracy to him. Truly, I love him as well as I do most kings. The greater offence is my reflection on Lord Clarendon. It is forgotten that I had overpraised him before. Pray turn to the new State Papers, from which, it is said, he composed his history. You will find they are the papers from which ...

— Letters of Horace Walpole - Volume II • Horace Walpole

... doctrines of religion; the arrogance of the polemic writings displeased her by their inveteracy in attacking people she did not know; and the secular stories, relieved with religion, seemed to her written in such ignorance of the world, that they insensibly estranged her from the truths for whose proof ...

— The Public vs. M. Gustave Flaubert • Various