Inveterate

(a.) Old; long-established.

(a.) Firmly established by long continuance; obstinate; deep-rooted; of long standing; as, an inveterate disease; an inveterate abuse.

(a.) Having habits fixed by long continuance; confirmed; habitual; as, an inveterate idler or smoker.

(a.) Malignant; virulent; spiteful.

(v. t.) To fix and settle by long continuance.

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• The greed of Germany in 1871 had made France her inveterate enemy. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Through his most inveterate purposes, the dead Jailer of Harmony Jail had known these two faithful servants to be honest and true. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• His most inveterate enemy was a certain Anytus, whose son, a devoted disciple of Socrates, had become a hopeless drunkard. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Such a reconnaissance, like that of a coming field of battle, was invaluable, and may help give a further idea of the man's inveterate care for the minutiae of things. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The subject was a German who kept a liquor-shop and was an inveterate drunkard. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• In the arts we call this inveterate tendency classicalism. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• But, imbued from her childhood with a brooding sense of wrong, and an inveterate hatred of a class, opportunity had developed her into a tigress. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• It revived my utmost indignation to find that she was still pursued by this fellow, and I felt inveterate against him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Oh, the hardness of heart of these inveterate men! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.

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