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

Ma M�re Sup�rieure, pour le mois de S. Joseph, elle se corrige de cette vilaine habitude de mordre ses ongles.

From Consequences by Delafield, E. M.

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)

The "sweet habitude of being"—not that I fear death, but that I love life as, for instance, Charles Lamb loved it—makes me particularly affect a cheerful burial-place.

From The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 by Clappe, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith

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

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