Sentence:  Critics see an unreasonable craving for authority in Newman's anti-liberalism. He was also a <WSD>bred-in-the-bone</WSD> Tory, and as the youthful leader of the Oxford Movement that sought a bulwark against Parliamentary manipulation of Anglicanism in its ancient Catholic roots, he could be savagely polemical. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Inveterate or habitual; long-standing.