inveterate

inveterate englannista suomeksi

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inveterate englanniksi

1. firmly established from having been around for a long time; of long standing

(ux)

2. (RQ:Carlyle Past and Present)

3. {{quote-text|en|year=1911|author=Morrison I. Swift|chapter=Humanizing the Prisons,|title=The Atlantic

4. Having had a habit for a long time

5. (RQ:Landon Ethel Churchill)

6. (RQ:Alcott Little Women)

7. (quote-book)|location=New York|publisher=Picador|isbn=9781250118035|page=6|passage=Like many lonely people, he was an inveterate hoarder, making and surrounding himself with objects, barriers against the demands of human intimacy.

8. Malignant; virulent; spiteful.

9. {{quote-text|en|year=1748|author=David Hume|title=Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of morals|location=London|publisher=Oxford University Press|year_published=1973|section=§ 15

10. 1765–70, (w), ''(w)''

This his lordship perused with a countenance, and scrutiny, apparently inveterate.

11. To fix and settle after a long time; to entrench.

12. {{quote-text|en|year=1622|author=Francis Bacon|title=The History of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh

13. 1640, Edward Dacres, translation of ''The Prince'' by Machiavelli|Niccolò Machiavelli, Chapter XIX http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/15772:

"none of these Princes do use to maintaine any armies together, which are annex'd and inveterated with the governments of the provinces, as were the armies of the Roman Empire. "

14. 1851 January, author unknown, "The Philosophy of the American Union, in ''The United States Magazine and Democratic Review'', page 16:

"The foregoing elements of disunion are inveterated by the constituent formation of our national legislature. In the French chambers the members are all Frenchmen ; but our members of Congress are effectively Georgians, New-Yorkers, Carolinians, Pennsylvanians, &c."

15. (feminine plural of)

16. (inflection of)