“Deep-Seated”

✅: deep-seated

🛑: deep-seeded 

Meaning: strongly felt or believed and very difficult to alter or remove

From the verb seat, as in “to situate,” the expression is believed to have originated as a descriptor for infections and diseases that were located deep within the body, and thus difficult to eradicate.

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