habitude

American  

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

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

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Etymology

Origin of habitude

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

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Example Sentences

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habitude

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

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 Thomas Taylor

If the hand be capacity, resource, and possession, the foot is swift perilous impulse, and also fixed habitude, monotonous recurrence, the settled ways of the world.

From The Gospel According to St. Mark by G. A. Chadwick

Et par ce est esclarcy le dict dAristote et de Avenrois, whiche have put blacknesse for privation and whytnesse for habytude qui ont mis noircheur pour priuacion et blancheur pour habitude or forme.

From An Introductorie for to Lerne to Read, To Pronounce, and to Speke French Trewly by Giles Du Wés

With one further evil effect, perhaps the worst, of the habitude of ceaseless parental giving, I have dealt elsewhere.

From Child Versus Parent Some Chapters on the Irrepressible Conflict in the Home by Stephen Wise

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