All 6 Uses of
inveterate
in
The Portrait of a Lady
- He carried his hands in his pockets, and there was something in the way he did it that showed the habit was inveterate.†
Chpt 1 *
- She had made numerous visits to distant friends and gave countenance to the idea that for the future she should be a less inveterate Roman than in the past.†
Chpt 40
- As she had been inveterate in the past only in the sense of constantly having an apartment in one of the sunniest niches of the Pincian—an apartment which often stood empty—this suggested a prospect of almost constant absence; a danger which Isabel at one period had been much inclined to deplore.†
Chpt 40
- Osmond, however, presently got up, like a man of good taste to whom it had occurred that so inveterate a visitor might wish to say just the last word of all to the ladies.†
Chpt 46
- He must be sure to come back; there was something very refreshing, to an inveterate Italian like himself, in talking with a genuine outsider.†
Chpt 48
- There was something perverse in the inveteracy with which she avoided him; his unquenchable rancour discovered an intention where there was certainly no appearance of one.†
Chpt 48
Definition:
habitual; or something of long standing