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

Passion might be quenched in the slough of habitude; love’s pinions might molt like any farm-yard hen’s.

From Project Gutenberg

Adaptive processes of this kind have no assignable beginning, inasmuch as every problem that incites to new adaptation, presupposes a fixed habitude of thought.

From Project Gutenberg

Piercing, pondering thought was with him a habitude.

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This, and the mental habitude given by his military education and experience, mark him as sui generis among our political leaders.

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