habitude

[ hab-i-tood, -tyood ]

/ ˈhæb ɪˌtud, -ˌtyud /

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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.

Words nearby habitude

habited, habitual, habitual abortion, habituate, habituation, habitude, habitus, habitué, haboob, habor, habsburg

Origin of habitude

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

OTHER WORDS FROM habitude

hab·i·tu·di·nal, adjective

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Examples from the Web for habitude

I have the habitude of the languages; they count me an expert.
Faithful Margaret|Annie Ashmore
To Mrs. Luttrell society was a necessity, as a thing becomes after a lifetime of habitude.
Mrs. Darrell|Foxcroft Davis
What had formerly been habitude and trifling, was now grown seriousness and inclination.
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2)|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The material they had to work upon was already democratical by instinct and habitude.
An English Grammar|W. M. Baskervill and J. W. Sewell

Harry had seen many such machines in his wanderings, and they had aroused no baffling instinct of habitude.
Satan Sanderson|Hallie Erminie Rives

British Dictionary definitions for habitude

habitude

/ (ˈhæbɪˌtjuːd) /

noun

rare habit or tendency

Derived forms of habitude

habitudinal, adjective

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habitude

noun

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Words nearby habitude

Origin of habitude

OTHER WORDS FROM habitude

Examples from the Web for habitude

British Dictionary definitions for habitude

noun

Derived forms of habitude