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

I think he is like the French lady of whom it was said, "Elle n'avait pas encore perdu l'ancienne habitude d'�tre jeune."

From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Hare, Augustus J. C.

The said physician purged him canonically with Anticyran hellebore, by which medicine he cleansed all the alteration and perverse habitude of his brain.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I by Lodge, Henry Cabot

On the inside the keyhole, contrary to habitude, was in the centre of the door.

From Faces and Places by Lucy, Henry W. (Henry William), Sir

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 Clappe, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith