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 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

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 Crane, Walter

What gleaming up of hands that fling Their homage in retorted rays, From high instinct of worshipping, And habitude of praise!

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

This, and the mental habitude given by his military education and experience, mark him as sui generis among our political leaders.

From The Brothers' War by Reed, John Calvin