Definitions
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- adjective Burnt in; ineffaceable.
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- adjective
Burnt in;ineffaceable .
Etymologies
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in + burnt
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Examples
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If I have (and I show it through all my writings) a shrinking from priestcraft of every denomination, that feeling I take to be due to some ancient heredity ingrained, or, more truly, inburnt into my nature from sundry pre-Lutheran confessors and martyrs of old, from whom I claim to be descended, and by whose spirit I am imbued.
My Life as an Author Tupper, Martin F 1886
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The unhappy man is intensely subjective; his own impressions are so inburnt that those of others seem to him unimportant -- nay, impertinent.
Thyrza George Gissing 1880
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