habitude

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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

The abstentions indicate a curious and interesting habitude ingrained in the English Press.

From The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 28, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Newnes, George

By successive inoculation of increasing strength for fourteen days, the system will have acquired a habitude to the disease which prevents the normal effects.

From Rural Hygiene by Ogden, Henry N. (Henry Neely)

Political insouciance was his prevailing habitude of mind; an invincible tendency to "laissez aller" the basis of his character.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various

There was at work some great solvent making into naught the dross of custom and habitude.

From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary