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deep-rooted

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deep-root·ed (dprtd, -rtd)
adj.
Firmly implanted; well-established: deep-rooted prejudices.

deep-rooted or deep-seated
Adjective
(of ideas, beliefs, etc.) firmly fixed or held
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Adj.1.deep-rooted - (used especially of ideas or principles) deeply rooted; firmly fixed or held; "deep-rooted prejudice"; "deep-seated differences of opinion"; "implanted convictions"; "ingrained habits of a lifetime"; "a deeply planted need"
constituted, established - brought about or set up or accepted; especially long established; "the established social order"; "distrust the constituted authority"; "a team established as a member of a major league"; "enjoyed his prestige as an established writer"; "an established precedent"; "the established Church"

deep-rooted or deep-seated
Translations
Spanish deep-rooted [ˈdiːpˈruːtɪd] adj [prejudice, habit] → profundamente arraigado; [affection] → profundo
French deep-rooted [ˈdiːpˈruːtɪd] adj [prejudice] → profondément enraciné(e); [affection] → profond(e); [habit] → invétéré(e)
German deep-rooted [ˈdiːpˈruːtɪd] deep adjtief verwurzelt;
(habit) → fest eingefahren

Italian deep-rooted [ˈdiːpˈruːtɪd] adj [prejudice] → profondamente radicato/a; [affection] → profondo/a; [habit] → inveterato/a

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It was this: I asked myself whether there was not in his soul some deep-rooted instinct of creation, which the circumstances of his life had obscured, but which grew relentlessly, as a cancer may grow in the living tissues, till at last it took possession of his whole being and forced him irresistibly to action.
Three weeks later, when Dorlcote Mill was at its prettiest moment in all the year,--the great chestnuts in blossom, and the grass all deep and daisied,--Tom Tulliver came home to it earlier than usual in the evening, and as he passed over the bridge, he looked with the old deep-rooted affection at the respectable red brick house, which always seemed cheerful and inviting outside, let the rooms be as bare and the hearts as sad as they might inside.
Now, if there was one individual in the whole world, of whom the spinster aunt entertained a mortal and deep-rooted jealousy, it was this identical niece.
 
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