habitude

[hab-i-tood, -tyood]

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noun

customary condition or character: a healthy mental habitude.

a habit or custom: traditional habitudes of kindliness and courtesy.

Obsolete. familiar relationship.

Origin of habitude

1375–1425; late Middle English < Middle French < Latin habitūdō. See habit¹, -tude

Related formshab·i·tu·di·nal, adjective

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Related Words for habitude

fashion, observance, form, habit, mode, characteristic, consuetude, practice, rule, grind, manner, hang-up, routine, shot, addiction, groove, precedent, procedure, praxis, into

Examples from the Web for habitude

Historical Examples of habitude

Mrs. Maxim, according to the habitude of her sex, led in the conversation.
Dynamite Stories
Hudson Maxim
I have the habitude of the languages; they count me an expert.
Faithful Margaret
Annie Ashmore
He was vain of his experiments in profligacy, but they never grew to habitude.
The Life of Lord Byron
John Galt
Such is the fearlessness, the insensibility to danger, which men acquire by the habitude of constant risk.
Astoria
Washington Irving
He steeped himself in this bath of habitude, to which artificial regrets insinuated a tonic quality.
Against The Grain
Joris-Karl Huysmans

British Dictionary definitions for habitude

habitude

noun

rare habit or tendency

Derived Formshabitudinal, adjective

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Word Origin and History for habitude

"custom, habit," c.1400, from Old French habitude (14c.), from Latin habitudinem (nominative habitudo) "condition, appearance, habit," from past participle stem of habere (see habit (n.)). Related: Habitudinal (late 14c.).