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/ɪngrˈeɪnd/ Listen

verb

Ingrain v. t. (past & past part. ingrained; pres. part. ingraining)

To dye with or in grain or kermes.

To dye in the grain, or before manufacture.

To work into the natural texture or into the mental or moral constitution of; to stain; to saturate; to imbue; to infix deeply. "Our fields ingrained with blood." "Cruelty and jealousy seem to be ingrained in a man who has these vices at all."

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"Ingrained" Quotes from Famous Books

... I will pay you well," he cried; but his ingrained propensity for making a good bargain prompted him to add, "provided ...

— Off on a Comet • Jules Verne

... complained of thieves he said: "If you, sir, were not covetous, though you should reward them for it, they would not steal." His ideal of greatness predicts Marcus Antoninus. At the same time, he abstained from paradox, and met the ingrained prudence of his nation by saying always: "Bend one cubit to ...

— Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O • Various

... the other is dark and unknown. It is an instinct with him to conceal the truth—any truth—from white men; who knows to what use they will put it and him? So deeply have ages of slavery and oppression ingrained this upon black men's subconsciousness, that only one white man in a thousand ever knows or suspects what his dark brethren think, or know, or feel. Peter Champneys ...

— The Purple Heights • Marie Conway Oemler

... there really was nothing to do but acknowledge defeat. Other men were able to provide frocks for their wives and he supposed he ought to be willing to do the same thing. There was an element of stung pride in his surrender. He had the ingrained Californian's distaste for admitting, even to himself, that there was anything he could not afford. And in the end it was this feeling rising above the surface of his irritation which made him a bit ashamed of his attitude toward Helen's dinner party. After all, it would be ...

— Broken to the Plow • Charles Caldwell Dobie

... of the other sort could have no share in his life. Weldon was no Galahad. He had danced and dined with many women, had given sympathy to some, chaff to others; nevertheless, his relations with them had been curiously direct and simple. Quite unconsciously to himself, his mother's code had become ingrained in the very fibre of his being. And now he was ready to stand or fall by his judgment that Ethel Dent, Cooee as he called her in his secret heart, was as good and loyal as a woman could be. The future seemed to him so obvious that he made no effort to forecast ...

— On the Firing Line • Anna Chapin Ray and Hamilton Brock Fuller

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