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

Perhaps now she realized this dimly, and some instinct warned her subtly to avoid any departure from old habitude, even when avoidance meant the first real struggle she had ever made against definite inclination.

From Elsie Marley, Honey by Gray, Joslyn

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

I have the habitude of the languages; they count me an expert.

From Faithful Margaret A Novel by Ashmore, Annie

He has punctuality, he has secrecy, he has the habitude.

From Gabriel Conroy by Harte, Bert