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
What we call ‘Formulas’ are not in their origin bad; they are indispensably good. 408Formula is method, habitude; found wherever man is found.
From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle
With one further evil effect, perhaps the worst, of the habitude of ceaseless parental giving, I have dealt elsewhere.
From Child Versus Parent Some Chapters on the Irrepressible Conflict in the Home by Stephen Wise
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
And now she must provide bread for her children by her own “hand-labour,”—without the habitude of labour.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various
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