Bred-in-the-bone
firmly instilled or established as if by heredity:
the bred-in-the-bone integrity of the school’s headmaster.
deeply committed or resolved; unwavering:
a bred-in-the-bone believer in civil rights.
Historical Examples
Chronicles of Avonlea Lucy Maud Montgomery
Theodore Roosevelt and His Times Harold Howland
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