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

If the hand be capacity, resource, and possession, the foot is swift perilous impulse, and also fixed habitude, monotonous recurrence, the settled ways of the world.

From The Gospel According to St. Mark by Chadwick, G. A.

It was this habitude that led to our excitement at Melun.

From Faces and Places by Lucy, Henry W. (Henry William), Sir

They say," observed Monsieur Fromagin, "that the cat—it was among his many tricks—had the habitude to jump on Madame Jolicœur's head when, for that purpose, she covered it with a night-cap.

From Lords of the Housetops Thirteen Cat Tales by Van Vechten, Carl

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

From The Brothers' War by Reed, John Calvin