Noble vs Inveterate - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between noble and inveterate

is that noble is having honorable qualities; having moral eminence and freedom from anything petty, mean or dubious in conduct and character while inveterate is old; firmly established by long continuance; of long standing; obstinately deep-rooted; as, an inveterate disease; an inveterate habit.

As a noun noble

is an aristocrat; one of aristocratic blood.

As a proper noun Noble

is {{surname}.

As a verb inveterate is

to fix and settle by long continuance; to entrench.

noble

English

(wikipedia noble)

Noun

(en noun)

An aristocrat; one of aristocratic blood.

This country house was occupied by nobles in the 16th century.

* 1499 , (John Skelton), The Bowge of Courte :

I lyked no thynge his playe, / For yf I had not quyckely fledde the touche, / He had plucte oute the nobles of my pouche.

* 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :

And who shall then stick closest to ye, and excite others? not he who takes up armes for cote and conduct, and his four nobles of Danegelt.

* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 93:

There, before the high altar, as the choir's voices soared upwards to the blue, star-flecked ceiling, Henry knelt and made his offering of a ‘noble in gold’, 6s 8d.

Antonyms

* commoner * plebeian

Hyponyms

* See also

Derived terms

* half-noble * noble gas

Adjective

(en adjective)

Having honorable qualities; having moral eminence and freedom from anything petty, mean or dubious in conduct and character.

Grand; stately; magnificent; splendid.

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, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}

Of exalted rank; of or relating to the nobility; distinguished from the masses by birth, station, or title; highborn.

Synonyms

* (having honorable qualities) great, honorable * (of exalted rank) superior

Antonyms

* (having honorable qualities) ignoble, mean, vile, despicable * (of exalted rank) inferior * (distinguished from the masses by birth) plebeian

Derived terms

(Terms derived from the adjective) * ennoble * nobility * noble-minded * noble gas * nobleman * noble metal * nobleness * noble rot * noblewoman * nobley

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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. § 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

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