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inˈveterateness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being inveterate; inveteracy.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vii. xii. 363 As time hath rendred him more perfect in the Art, so hath the inveteratenesse of his malice more ready in the execution. 1660Burney κέρδ. Δῶρον (1661) 28 The swellings of hatred and inveteratenesse. a1704Locke (J.), Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse. |