Both Uses of
inveterate
in
The Power and the Glory, by Cooke
- Sure, hit's good land—fine land," the mountaineers would comment with their inveterate, dry, lazy humour.†
Chpt 5
- The word seems unduly fiery when one remembers the smiling, insouciant manner of his divergences from the conventional type; yet he was inveterately himself, and not some schoolmaster's or tailor's or barber's version of Gray Stoddard; and in this, though Johnnie did not know it, lay the strength of his charm for her.†
Chpt 5 *inveterately = habitually
Definition:
habitual; or something of long standing