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inveteracy|ɪnˈvɛtərəsɪ|
[f. next: see -acy.]
1. The quality of being inveterate; the state of being strong or deep-seated from long persistence.
a1719Addison (J.), The inveteracy of the people's prejudices compelled their rulers to make use of all means for reducing them. 1748Anson's Voy. ii. i. 114 The disease seemed to have acquired a degree of inveteracy which was altogether without example. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. I. i. 6 All those vulgar errors cherished from age to age by the blindness of prejudice, and inveteracy of habit. 1807Jefferson Writ. (1830) IV. 86 Their boldness has betrayed an inveteracy of criminal disposition. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 489 Where habit has given inveteracy to the recurrence of the paroxysms.
2. In pregnant sense: Deep-rooted prejudice, hostility, or hatred; enmity of old standing.
1691tr. Emilianne's Frauds Rom. Monks 54 He judged with an inveteracy of heart, what belongs alone to God to judge of. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 350 The Turks, who disown that..Caliphship with the same Inveteracy to each others Claims, as among us Papists and Protestants. 1703S. Parker tr. Eusebius 69 He shews the great Inveteracy of the Jews against the Christians. 1782Paine Let. Abbé Raynal (1791) 69 Where is the impossibility..of England forming a friendship with France and Spain, and making it a national virtue to renounce for ever those prejudiced inveteracies it has been her custom to cherish? 1796Nelson 3 July in Nicolas Disp. (1845) II. 201, I shall not fail to sow as much inveteracy against the French as is possible. 1861May Const. Hist. (1863) II. xvi. 535 A fierce conflict arose between the orangemen and defenders,..which increased the inveteracy of the two parties. |