habitude
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Bruhat’s first word of the night was habitude, which means one’s “usual disposition or mode of behavior or procedure.”
From New York Times ● May 30, 2024
The "sweet habitude of being"—not that I fear death, but that I love life as, for instance, Charles Lamb loved it—makes me particularly affect a cheerful burial-place.
From The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 by Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe
Piercing, pondering thought was with him a habitude.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Clark S. Beardslee
If the hand be capacity, resource, and possession, the foot is swift perilous impulse, and also fixed habitude, monotonous recurrence, the settled ways of the world.
From The Gospel According to St. Mark by G. A. Chadwick
Everything goes to prove it—his constant preoccupation with psychological questions, his tacit assimilation of organ-formation to instinctive behaviour, his constant insistence on the importance of besoin and habitude.
From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
