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

I have the habitude of the languages; they count me an expert.

From Faithful Margaret A Novel by Ashmore, Annie

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

From The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by MacKenzie, Compton

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.

Perhaps now she realized this dimly, and some instinct warned her subtly to avoid any departure from old habitude, even when avoidance meant the first real struggle she had ever made against definite inclination.

From Elsie Marley, Honey by Gray, Joslyn