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inveteracy

/in'vetәrәsi/

📖 中文释义

  1. n. 根深蒂固, 积习

🔗 释义中的汉语词

📘 English Definition(英文释义)
  1. n. Firm establishment by long continuance; firmness or
  2. deep-rooted obstinacy of any quality or state acquired by time; as, the
  3. inveteracy of custom, habit, or disease; -- usually in a bad sense; as,
  4. the inveteracy of prejudice or of error.
  5. n. Malignity; spitefulness; virulency.