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Inveterate vs Adamant - What's the difference?

inveterate | adamant |

As adjectives the difference between inveterate and adamant

is that inveterate is old; firmly established by long continuance; of long standing; obstinately deep-rooted; as, an inveterate disease; an inveterate habit while adamant is firm; unshakeable; unyielding; determined.

As a verb inveterate

is (obsolete) to fix and settle by long continuance; to entrench.

As a noun adamant is

an imaginary rock or mineral of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness.

inveterate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Old; firmly established by long continuance; of long standing; obstinately deep-rooted; as, an inveterate disease; an inveterate habit.
  • * 1843 , , book 1, ch. 3, "Manchester Insurrection":
    • a Heaven's radiance of justice, prophetic, clearly of Heaven, discernible behind all these confused worldwide entanglements, of Landlord interests, Manufacturing interests, Tory-Whig interests, and who knows what other interests, expediencies, vested interests, established possessions, inveterate Dilettantisms, Midas-eared Mammonism.
  • * 1911 , Morrison I. Swift, "Humanizing the Prisons," The Atlantic :
    • In Montpelier, where this prison stands, the inveterate prejudice against prisoners has been swept away.
  • (of a person) Having habits fixed by long continuance; confirmed; habitual; as, an inveterate idler or smoker.
  • * 1868 , , Little Women , ch. 45:
    • [S]he offered kisses to a stranger so confidingly that the most inveterate bachelor relented.
  • Malignant; virulent; spiteful.
  • * 1748 , , Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of morals , London: Oxford University Press, 1973. ยง 15:
    • A man of mild manners can form no idea of inveterate revenge or cruelty

    Synonyms

    * deep-rooted * ingrained * ineradicable * radicated

    Antonyms

    * casual

    Verb

    (inveterat)
  • (obsolete) To fix and settle by long continuance; to entrench.
  • * 1622 , , The History of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh :
    • "the vulgar conceived that now there was an end given, and a consummation to superstitious prophecies, the belief of fools, but the talk sometimes of wise men, and to an ancient tacit expectation which had by tradition been infused and inveterated into men's minds."
  • * 1640 , Edward Dacres, translation of The Prince by , Chapter XIX [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/15772]:
    • "none of these Princes do use to maintaine any armies together, which are annex'd and inveterated with the governments of the provinces, as were the armies of the Roman Empire. "
  • * 1851 January, author unknown, "The Philosophy of the American Union, in The United States Magazine and Democratic Review , page 16:
    • "The foregoing elements of disunion are inveterated by the constituent formation of our national legislature. In the French chambers the members are all Frenchmen ; but our members of Congress are effectively Georgians, New-Yorkers, Carolinians, Pennsylvanians, &c."

    Derived terms

    * inveteration

    References

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    adamant

    English

    (wikipedia adamant)

    Alternative forms

    * adamaunt (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Firm; unshakeable; unyielding; determined.
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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An imaginary rock or mineral of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year= 1582 , year_published= , author= , by= , title= The first booke of the Christian exercise, appertayning to resolution , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=gvbik25DcCgC&pg=PT144 , original= , chapter= 8 , section = , isbn= , edition= , publisher= G. Flinton , location= , editor= , volume= , page= , passage= This then is and alwayes hath ben the fashion of Worldlinges, & reprobate persons, to harden their hartes as an adamant stone, against anye thinge that shalbe tolde the for amendement of their lives, and for the savinge of their soules. }}
  • An embodiment of impregnable hardness.
  • * 1956 , , The City and the Stars , p 34
    • Unprotected matter, however adamant , would have been ground to dust ages ago.
  • A magnet; a lodestone.
  • * 1594–96 , :
    • You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant :
    But yet you draw not iron, for all my heart
    Is true as steel. Leave you your power to draw,
    And I shall have no power to follow you.

    Derived terms

    * adamance (pos n) * adamantane (pos a) * adamantean (pos a) * adamantine (pos a) * adamantly (pos adv)

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