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Ingrained

adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Being an element; present in the essence of a thing

    "But ever since the concept of "hamartia" recurred through Aristotle's Poetics, in an attempt to describe man's ingrained iniquity, our impulse has been to identify a telling defect in those brought suddenly and dramatically low."

  2. 2
    Fixed, established
Adjective
  1. 1
    (used especially of ideas or principles) deeply rooted; firmly fixed or held wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of ingrain form-of, participle, past

Etymology

Etymology 1

From ingrain + -ed.

Etymology 2

From ingrain + -ed.

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