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Definition of Inveterately
1. adv. In an inveterate manner or degree.
Definition of Inveterately
1. Adverb. For a long time. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Inveterately
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inveterately
Literary usage of Inveterately
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom by Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) (1829)
"... Latin Term in the Hellenistic Greek, which has been inveterately mistaken for
a genuine Greek Word. By GRANVILLE PENN, ESQ. Read Dec. 20th, 1826. ..."
2. Inquiry Into the Law and Practice in Scottish Peerages, Before, and After by John Riddell (1842)
"... but an utter impossibility;—while the same inextricable anomaly in fact, from
two inveterately hostile and repugnant rules coming equally into play, ..."
3. American Prose Masters: Cooper--Hawthorne--Emerson--Poe--Lowell--Henry James by William Crary Brownell (1909)
""inveterately felicitous," in fact, is not an inexact epithet for Lowell's figures
... His figures are of course variably, however inveterately, felicitous, ..."
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