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inveterate

adjective

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Long established and habitual, especially of a tendency or person.

An inveterate collector, he kept every ticket from every concert.
Dictionary practice example.
An inveterate tinkerer among her companions has adjusted the same lantern every evening for twenty years.
From Tendencies That Become Habits.
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