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habitude

[ hab-i-tood, -tyood ]

noun

  1. customary condition or character:

    a healthy mental habitude.

  2. a habit or custom:

    traditional habitudes of kindliness and courtesy.

  3. Obsolete. familiar relationship.


habitude

/ ˈæɪˌː /

noun

  1. rare.
    habit or tendency
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˌ󲹲ˈٳܻ徱Բ, adjective
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  • 󲹲i·ٳd·Բ adjective
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of habitude1

1375–1425; late Middle English < Middle French < Latin 󲹲ūō. See habit 1, -tude
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Example Sentences

Bruhat’s first word of the night was habitude, which means one’s “usual disposition or mode of behavior or procedure.”

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Passion might be quenched in the slough of habitude; love’s pinions might molt like any farm-yard hen’s.

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The question, "Why?" which is always appropriate where the explanation of a contradiction is concerned, like all proper habitudes of thought, can overreach itself and be asked where nothing remains to be understood.

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They are not physically strong: they are quiet, weakly-looking men, with little energy and no habitude to hardships.

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This undoubted fact in Lincoln's mental habitude is a signal and significant factor, to be held in careful estimation in a final judgment of Lincoln's character.

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