Bible Dictionaries
Inveteracy

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) Firm establishment by long continuance; firmness or deep-rooted obstinacy of any quality or state acquired by time; as, the inveteracy of custom, habit, or disease; - usually in a bad sense; as, the inveteracy of prejudice or of error.

(2):

(n.) Malignity; spitefulness; virulency.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Inveteracy'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​i/inveteracy.html. 1828.