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

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 Du Wés, Giles

The tyro with the pen, learning to write, splotches and scratches, and painfully forms trembling, limping O's and A's, till with practice and habitude, almost unconsciously, the power to form firm letters is acquired.

From Line and Form (1900) by Crane, Walter

By habitude of ill that veils Thy light.

From The Century of Columbus by Walsh, James J.

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