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

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

From Gabriel Conroy by Harte, Bert

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)

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

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