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

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

I think he is like the French lady of whom it was said, "Elle n'avait pas encore perdu l'ancienne habitude d'�tre jeune."

From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Hare, Augustus J. C.

Of old habitude and constant association instilled a religion—the religion of obedience, the religion of esprit de corps.

From Men, Women and Guns by McNeile, H. C. (Herman Cyril)

By habitude of ill that veils Thy light.

From The Century of Columbus by Walsh, James J.