habitude
Americannoun
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customary condition or character.
a healthy mental habitude.
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a habit or custom.
traditional habitudes of kindliness and courtesy.
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Obsolete. familiar relationship.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of habitude
1375–1425; late Middle English < Middle French < Latin habitūdō. See habit 1, -tude
Example Sentences
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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
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
And since the providence of the gods is everywhere extended, a certain habitude or fitness is all that is requisite, in order to receive their beneficent communications.
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
By habitude of ill that veils Thy light.
From The Century of Columbus by Walsh, James J.
I believe the former, and consider it the result of an acquired psychical habitude.
From The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals by Weir, James
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