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.
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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
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
It was this habitude that led to our excitement at Melun.
From Faces and Places by Sir Henry W. (Henry William) Lucy
And now she must provide bread for her children by her own “hand-labour,”—without the habitude of labour.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various
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
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