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

By habitude of ill that veils Thy light.

From The Century of Columbus by Walsh, James J.

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)

Piercing, pondering thought was with him a habitude.

From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.

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