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Definition
of something bad: long-lasting or happening all the time — especially of disease
- It was a chronic attribute, pervading his entire person.4.6 — Part 4 Chapter 6 (8% in)
- The tone of chronic impatience that ran words together had not altered to pronounce this.4.10 — Part 4 Chapter 10 (53% in)
- The fear of which they thought was not the normal kind, not a response to a tangible danger, but the chronic, unconfessed fear in which they all lived.4.18 — Part 4 Chapter 18 (27% in)
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