accustomedness love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Familiarity; wontedness; the quality of being accustomed (to).

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Habituation.

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  • noun Habituation.

Etymologies

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accustomed + -ness

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Examples

  • Will was in that voice, and accustomedness to command.

    CHAPTER XXIV 2010

  • Amid the confusion of new experiences she gloats over her ability to choose and purchase half-a-dozen common articles with the composure and accustomedness of a veteran.

    The Joy of Advertising 2004

  • Amid the confusion of new experiences she gloats over her ability to choose and purchase half-a-dozen common articles with the composure and accustomedness of a veteran.

    The Joy of Advertising 2004

  • A certain spirited undulation in her walk, a seeming gay, frank indifference to her position in life, an obvious accustomedness to polite surroundings took his fancy.

    The Titan 2004

  • But there was the most definite air of accustomedness about it.

    The Glass Slipper Eberhart, Mignon G 1938

  • Officers fresh from the trenches have told me that one can lose through sheer accustomedness all horror at the grim sights of warfare, all consciousness of ear-splitting noises, all interest in gas and shrapnel and bursting shells.

    The Firefly of France Marion Polk Angellotti 1936

  • Will was in that voice, and accustomedness to command.

    Chapter 24 1917

  • Now that the novelty had become accustomedness, and the conquering a surety, Billy discovered that she had a back that could ache, and limbs that, at times, could almost refuse to move from weariness.

    Miss Billy -- Married 1914

  • Yet afterwards, when accustomedness had brought its reward of speed, there was still for Billy no time; for increased knowledge had only opened the way to other paths, untrodden and alluring.

    Miss Billy -- Married 1914

  • As she talked to him he realized that her simple accustomedness to English village life and all its accompaniments of county surroundings would teach him anything and everything he might want to know.

    T. Tembarom 1913

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