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 tyro with the pen, learning to write, splotches and scratches, and painfully forms trembling, limping O's and A's, till with practice and habitude, almost unconsciously, the power to form firm letters is acquired.

From Line and Form (1900) by Crane, Walter

It was this habitude that led to our excitement at Melun.

From Faces and Places by Lucy, Henry W. (Henry William), Sir

There was at work some great solvent making into naught the dross of custom and habitude.

From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary

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