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

Ma M�re Sup�rieure, pour le mois de S. Joseph, elle se corrige de cette vilaine habitude de mordre ses ongles.

From Consequences by Delafield, E. M.

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)

The abstentions indicate a curious and interesting habitude ingrained in the English Press.

From The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 28, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Newnes, George

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.