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

For all that they keep their eyes on the alert through habitude, every now and then scanning the horizon around.

From The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora by Reid, Mayne

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)

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

They say," observed Monsieur Fromagin, "that the cat—it was among his many tricks—had the habitude to jump on Madame Jolicœur's head when, for that purpose, she covered it with a night-cap.

From Lords of the Housetops Thirteen Cat Tales by Van Vechten, Carl