habitude

American  

[hab-i-tood, -tyood] / ˈhæb ɪˌtud, -ˌtyud /

noun

1. customary condition or character.

   a healthy mental habitude.

2. a habit or custom.

   traditional habitudes of kindliness and courtesy.

3. Obsolete. familiar relationship.

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habitude British  

/ ˈhæbɪˌtjuːd /

noun

1. rare habit or tendency

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Other Word Forms

• habitudinal adjective

Etymology

Origin of habitude

1375–1425; late Middle English < Middle French < Latin habitūdō. See habit ¹, -tude

Example Sentences

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

Passion might be quenched in the slough of habitude; love’s pinions might molt like any farm-yard hen’s.

From Project Gutenberg

The question, "Why?" which is always appropriate where the explanation of a contradiction is concerned, like all proper habitudes of thought, can overreach itself and be asked where nothing remains to be understood.

From Project Gutenberg

Piercing, pondering thought was with him a habitude.

From Project Gutenberg

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

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