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habituated in
adjective as in accustomed
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Example Sentences
People had to be habituated in virtue by institutions they didn’t choose — family, religion, community, social norms.
Now it is certainly true that one gets habituated in time to everything.
He had been habituated in his sundry money dealings to look on Miss Baker as his patron's niece, and had always called her as such.
The conventional phrases about 'sacrifices' he disliked as much as he did the sensational appeals to which the public had been habituated in missionary meetings.
But since some are found to be depraved, and prone to vice, and not easily amenable to words, it was necessary for such to be restrained from evil by force and fear, in order that, at least, they might desist from evil-doing, and leave others in peace, and that they themselves, by being habituated in this way, might be brought to do willingly what hitherto they did from fear, and thus become virtuous.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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