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

And since the providence of the gods is everywhere extended, a certain habitude or fitness is all that is requisite, in order to receive their beneficent communications.

From Arguments Of Celsus, Porphyry, And The Emperor Julian, Against The Christians Also Extracts from Diodorus Siculus, Josephus, and Tacitus, Relating to the Jews, Together with an Appendix by Taylor, Thomas

There was at work some great solvent making into naught the dross of custom and habitude.

From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary

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 Beardslee, Clark S.

Passion might be quenched in the slough of habitude; love’s pinions might molt like any farm-yard hen’s.

From The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by MacKenzie, Compton