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habitude
Part of speech: NounCustomary manner or mode; familiarity; as, one who mingles with good company will acquire the habitude of correct speech.
Usage examples "habitude":- With the shortening of the days all hope of obtaining her husband's forgiveness began to leave her; and there was something of the habitude of the wild animal in the unreflecting instinct with which she rambled on- disconnecting herself by littles from her eventful past at every step, obliterating her identity, giving no thought to accidents or contingencies which might make a quick discovery of her whereabouts by others of importance to her own happiness, if not to theirs. - "Tess of the d'Urbervilles A Pure Woman", Thomas Hardy.
- Such was his love of life,- of what he called the sweet habitude of being!" - "Hyperion", Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
- " Thees horse is yonge, and has not yet the habitude of the person. - "The Bell-Ringer of Angel's and Other Stories", Bret Harte.