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

For all that they keep their eyes on the alert through habitude, every now and then scanning the horizon around.

From The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora by Reid, Mayne

But all habitude is produced through imitation and similitude.

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

Adaptive processes of this kind have no assignable beginning, inasmuch as every problem that incites to new adaptation, presupposes a fixed habitude of thought.

From Popular scientific lectures by Mach, Ernst

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