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
By habitude of ill that veils Thy light.
From The Century of Columbus by Walsh, James J.
Of just this personal habitude, through all the years of Lincoln's participation in our national affairs, there was strenuous need and requisition.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.
This undoubted fact in Lincoln's mental habitude is a signal and significant factor, to be held in careful estimation in a final judgment of Lincoln's character.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.
What we call ‘Formulas’ are not in their origin bad; they are indispensably good. 408Formula is method, habitude; found wherever man is found.
From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Carlyle, Thomas
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