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

By successive inoculation of increasing strength for fourteen days, the system will have acquired a habitude to the disease which prevents the normal effects.

From Rural Hygiene by Ogden, Henry N. (Henry Neely)

He has punctuality, he has secrecy, he has the habitude.

From Gabriel Conroy by Harte, Bert

I believe the former, and consider it the result of an acquired psychical habitude.

From The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals by Weir, James

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