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.
noun
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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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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
I believe the former, and consider it the result of an acquired psychical habitude.
From The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals by James Weir
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
For all that they keep their eyes on the alert through habitude, every now and then scanning the horizon around.
From The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora by Mayne Reid
It needs no peculiar or unusual habitude in order to respire what is termed night air.
From Papers on Health by Edward Bruce Kirk
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