habitude

Bruhat’s first word of the night was habitude, which means one’s “usual disposition or mode of behavior or procedure.”

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

The question, "Why?" which is always appropriate where the explanation of a contradiction is concerned, like all proper habitudes of thought, can overreach itself and be asked where nothing remains to be understood.

They are not physically strong: they are quiet, weakly-looking men, with little energy and no habitude to hardships.

This undoubted fact in Lincoln's mental habitude is a signal and significant factor, to be held in careful estimation in a final judgment of Lincoln's character.