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Word Meanings - INVETERATELY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In an inveterate manner or degree. "Inveterately tough." Hawthorne.

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  • MANNERIST
    One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
  • TOUGH-CAKE
    See
  • TOUGHEN
    To grow or make tough, or tougher.
  • MANNERISM
    Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
  • INVETERATE
    1. Old; long-established. It is an inveterate and received opinion. Bacon. 2. Firmly established by long continuance; obstinate; deep-rooted; of long standing; as, an inveterate disease; an inveterate abuse. Heal the inveterate canker of one wound.
  • TOUGH-HEAD
    The ruddy duck.
  • TOUGHLY
    In a tough manner.
  • TOUGH-PITCH
    The exact state or quality of texture and consistency of well reduced and refined copper. Copper so reduced; -- called also tough-cake.
  • DEGREE
    A certain distance or remove in the line of descent, determining the proximity of blood; one remove in the chain of relationship; as, a relation in the third or fourth degree. In the 11th century an opinion began to gain ground in Italy, that third
  • MANNERLINESS
    The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
  • INVETERATELY
    In an inveterate manner or degree. "Inveterately tough." Hawthorne.
  • MANNERED
    1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
  • TOUGHISH
    Tough in a slight degree.
  • MANNER
    manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
  • TOUGH
    toh, akin to D. taai, LG. taa, tage, tau, OHG. zahi, G. zähe, and 1. Having the quality of flexibility without brittleness; yielding to force without breaking; capable of resisting great strain; as, the ligaments of animals are remarkably tough.
  • MANNERCHOR
    A German men's chorus or singing club.
  • MANNERLY
    Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
  • INVETERATENESS
    Inveteracy. Sir T. Browne.
  • TOUGHNESS
    The quality or state of being tough.
  • UNMANNERLY
    Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
  • OVERMANNER
    In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
  • ILL-MANNERED
    Impolite; rude.
  • WELL-MANNERED
    Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.

 

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