Deep-rooted

1726, Jonathan Swift (translator), “Horace, Book I, Ode XIV” in Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, London: T. Woodward and Charles Davis, 1736, Volume 5, p. 193, Poor floating Isle, tost on ill Fortune’s Waves, Ordain’d by Fate to be the Land of Slaves; Shall moving Delos now deep-rooted stand, Thou, fixt of old, be now the moving Land?

1791, William Cowper (translator), The Odyssey, Book 13, in The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, London: J. Johnson, Volume 2, p. 302, And now the flying bark full near approach’d, When Neptune, meeting her, with out-spread palm Depress’d her at a stroke, and she became Deep-rooted stone.

He observed the leaves of trees there abouts more deeply green then else∣where, the Oakes broad-spreading, but not deep-rooted;

Finally the wind eats its way far beneath the point of penetration of the deepest-rooted species (except possibly Yucca) and all these are then added to the accumulating débris on the lee slope or elsewhere.

[His love was] as impossible to restore to growth as a deep-rooted plant torn from its bed.

The roots of prairie species are grouped into about three more or less definite absorbing layers , many of the deeper-rooted species having few or no absorbing roots in the first few feet of soil.

They avoid conflict at all costs because of their deep-rooted fear of upsetting people.

1850, Charlotte Brontë, letter to Elizabeth Gaskell dated 27 August, , in Elizabeth Gaskell, The Life of Charlotte Brontë, London: Smith, Elder, 1857, Volume 2, p. 177, Certainly there are evils which our own efforts will best reach; but as certainly there are other evils—deep-rooted in the foundations of the social system—which no efforts of ours can touch: