Inveteracy
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Inveteracy [1]
(1): ( n.) Firm establishment by long continuance; firmness or deep-rooted obstinacy of any quality or state acquired by time; as, the inveteracy of custom, habit, or disease; - usually in a bad sense; as, the inveteracy of prejudice or of error.
(2): ( n.) Malignity; spitefulness; virulency.
