Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A growing into use by long custom.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The act of making inveterate.
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- noun The act of making
inveterate .
Etymologies
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Latin inveteratio.
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Examples
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I say, then, that the real, the enduring shyness is that inveteration of reserve to which a few men in a few countries are miserably condemned.
Apologia Diffidentis 1905
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