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

The material they had to work upon was already democratical by instinct and habitude.

From Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American by Eliot, Charles William

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.

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

The King had but hardly gone into his bed-chamber when the door of the Closet opened and Don Diego Deza entered, unannounced, and with the manner of habitude and use.

From House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court by Gull, Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger