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

The said physician purged him canonically with Anticyran hellebore, by which medicine he cleansed all the alteration and perverse habitude of his brain.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I by Lodge, Henry Cabot

Adaptive processes of this kind have no assignable beginning, inasmuch as every problem that incites to new adaptation, presupposes a fixed habitude of thought.

From Popular scientific lectures by Mach, Ernst

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.

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

From Gabriel Conroy by Harte, Bert