Inveteracy

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Inveteracy \In*vet"er*a*cy\, n. [From {Inveterate}.]
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     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.
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              An inveteracy of evil habits that will prompt him to
              contract more.                        --A. Tucker.
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     2. Malignity; spitefulness; virulency.
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              The rancor of pamphlets, the inveteracy of epigrams,
              and the mortification of lampoons.    --Guardian.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  80 Moby Thesaurus words for "inveteracy":
     abidingness, aboriginality, accustomedness, age, ancien regime,
     ancientness, antiquity, atavism, changelessness,
     cobwebs of antiquity, commonness, confirmation, confirmedness,
     constancy, customariness, deep-rootedness, deep-seatedness,
     durability, durableness, duration, dust of ages, eld, elderliness,
     eldership, embedment, endurance, entrenchment, establishment,
     firmness, fixation, fixedness, fixity, fixture, frozenness,
     great age, habitualness, hardening, hoary age, hoary eld,
     immobility, immovability, immovableness, immutability,
     implantation, infixion, invariability, invariableness,
     inveterateness, lastingness, long standing, old age, old order,
     old style, oldness, permanence, permanency, perpetualness,
     persistence, persistency, prevalence, primitiveness, primogeniture,
     primordialism, primordiality, quiescence, rigidity, senility,
     seniority, settledness, solidity, stability, stabilization,
     standing, stasis, steadfastness, torpor, unchangeability,
     unchangingness, venerableness, wontedness