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Inveteracy   Listen
noun
Inveteracy  n.  
1.
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."
2.
Malignity; spitefulness; virulency. "The rancor of pamphlets, the inveteracy of epigrams, and the mortification of lampoons."






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