All 3 Uses of
inveterate
in
Doctor Zhivago
- The horses were like horses the world over: the shaft horse pulled with the innate honesty of a simple soul while the off horse arched its neck like a swan and seemed to the uninitiated to be an inveterate idler who thought only of prancing in time to the jangling bells.†
Chpt 1.1 *
- Again she repents in a terribly tangible way over her paist, saying that every night her flesh burns because of her old, inveterate habits.†
Chpt 2.13
- And then suddenly, completely by chance, I realized that this inveterate hostility was a camouflage of her love for me-a strong, enduring love she had felt for a long time, and which I had always returned.†
Chpt 2.16
Definition:
habitual; or something of long standing