单词 | inveteracy |
释义 | inveteracyn. 1. The quality of being inveterate; the state of being strong or deep-seated from long persistence. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > stability, fixity > [noun] stablenessa1300 tack1412 steadfastnessc1450 surenessc1450 stability1470 radicationa1500 constance1509 steadiness1530 certitudea1533 firmance1533 staidness1556 establishment1561 settledness1571 settling1582 state1597 groundedness1601 inviscerationa1631 setness1642 unmalleableness1644 fixedness1647 poise1649 inveteracy1716 well-foundedness1735 fixity1791 unmalleability1828 deep-rootedness1860 instatement1877 steady state1885 hard and fastness1897 1716 J. Addison Free-holder No. 48 The Inveteracy of the People's Prejudices..compelled their Rulers to make use of all Means for reducing them. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. i. 114 The disease seemed to have acquired a degree of inveteracy which was altogether without example. 1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. II. xiv. 104 All those vulgar errors cherished from age to age by the blindness of prejudice and inveteracy of habit. 1807 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 86 Their boldness has betrayed an inveteracy of criminal disposition. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 570 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. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > hatred > [noun] > fierce or virulent hatred perenmity1585 inveterateness1646 inveteracy1691 adder-hate1880 the mind > emotion > hatred > hostility > state of bitter and lasting mutual hostility > [noun] feudc1425 inveterateness1646 defeud1648 inveteracy1691 the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > [noun] > deep-rooted inveteracy1691 1691 A. Gavin Frauds Romish Monks 54 He judged with an inveteracy of heart, what belongs alone to God to judge of. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 350 The Turks, who disown that..Caliphship with the same Inveteracy to each others Claims, as among us Papists and Protestants. 1703 S. Parker tr. Eusebius Eccl. Hist. 69 He shews the great Inveteracy of the Jews against the Christians. 1782 T. Paine Let. to Abbe 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? 1796 Ld. Nelson Let. 3 July in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) II. 201 I shall not fail to sow as much inveteracy against the French as is possible. 1861 T. E. May Constit. Hist. Eng. (1863) II. xvi. 535 A fierce conflict arose between the orangemen and defenders,..which increased the inveteracy of the two parties. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < n.1691 |
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