Definition of Inveteracies

1. inveteracy [n] - See also: inveteracy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Inveteracies

investment firm
investment funds
investment letter
investment tax credit
investment trust
investments
investor
investor-owned utility
investors
investors club
invests
investure
investured
investures
investuring
inveteracies (current term)
inveteracy
inveterate
inveterate(a)
inveterated
inveterately
inveterateness
inveterates
inveterating
inveteration
inveteratist
invex
invexed
inviabilities
inviability

Literary usage of Inveteracies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Walden by Henry David Thoreau (1910)
"The only effectual cure for such inveteracies as these tails exhibit is to make glue of them, which I believe is what is usually done with them, ..."

2. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1906)
"The only effectual cure for such inveteracies as these tails exhibit is to make glue of them, which I believe is what is usually done with them, ..."

3. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1909)
"So as a further exemplification of the geometrical inveteracies of such minds as mine I will now spread before the reader in detail what seems to me to be ..."

4. The Analyst: A Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, Natural History by William Holl, Neville Wood, Edward Mammatt (1839)
"We are left to conjecture, then, that the best result would be an armistice or a suspension of national inveteracies. The dominion of Tyre was unbroken, ..."

5. Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomas Chalmers by William Hanna (1857)
"I say so, not in the spirit of menace, or for the purpose of terrifying bull-headed Toryism out of any of its inveteracies, but simply to let you know, ..."

6. American Prose: Hawthorne: Irving: Longfellow: Whittier: Holmes: Lowell (1880)
"The only effectual cure for such inveteracies as these tails exhibit is to make glue of them, which I believe is what is usually done with them, ..."

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