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
Of old habitude and constant association instilled a religion—the religion of obedience, the religion of esprit de corps.
From Men, Women and Guns by H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile
The tyro with the pen, learning to write, splotches and scratches, and painfully forms trembling, limping O's and A's, till with practice and habitude, almost unconsciously, the power to form firm letters is acquired.
From Line and Form (1900) by Walter Crane
By successive inoculation of increasing strength for fourteen days, the system will have acquired a habitude to the disease which prevents the normal effects.
From Rural Hygiene by Henry N. (Henry Neely) Ogden
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
