0 someone who does something very often and cannot stop doing it:
1 done as a habit and not likely to change:
an inveterate liar
Since the elite families are inveterate rivals, the alliances are between the elite families and their poorer clients who identify with them.
Thus, although a world interfered with only by an inveterate bodger is a logical possibility, part of our conceptual background is that our world is not like this.
The answer lies in the word "inveterate".
The method of account-keeping had become inveterate habit handed down from generations of hermit-like bursars; he accepted the form of the accounts as being part of the nature of things.
Being an inveterate borrower, the cliche category has succeeded in making itself into either a treasure trove or a rag bag, depending on your point of view.
These are inveterate notions of pedagogical practice.
Tomsett is an inveterate touring fan who publishes accounts of all the tours (and single concerts) he attends.
The rashness and licentiousness of some, and the inveterate superstition and stiffness of others in the ancient corruptions, had raised great dissensions to the regret of all christians.
