Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Inveteracy.
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- noun Inveteracy.
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- noun
inveteracy
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Examples
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Book dwelt long on this subject, and endeavoured to make it so plain, that neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the significancy of their expressions to be inquired into.
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And oh, wasn't this a far, far worse sort of _inveterateness_ than the Pritchard sort?
Elsie Marley, Honey Joslyn Gray
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To break in upon the sanctuary of vanity and ignorance will be, I suppose, some service to human understanding; though so few are apt to think they deceive or are deceived in the use of words; or that the language of the sect they are of has any faults in it which ought to be examined or corrected, that I hope I shall be pardoned if I have in the Third Book dwelt long on this subject, and endeavoured to make it so plain, that neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the significancy of their expressions to be inquired into.
God, Aids & Circumcision Hill, George 2005
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