customariness

It was, as a matter of fact, customariness of thought and action and the quintessence of convention that was desired.

The Titan 2004

I am greatly afraid of customariness in this matter.

Sacramental Discourses 1616-1683 1968

If they are dull, dead, and slothful in them, if under the power of customariness and formality, what issue can they expect?

Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

He was already ransacking the still faintly-perfumed dining-room for matches, and had just succeeded in relighting the still-warm lamp, when he heard her quiet step in the porch, even felt her peering in, in the gloom, with all her years 'trickling customariness behind her, a little dubious of knocking on a wide-open door.

The Return Walter De la Mare 1914

It was, as a matter of fact, customariness of thought and action and the quintessence of convention that was desired.

The Titan Theodore Dreiser 1908

'Serena nox'; and upon perusing again what I have writ in this paper, I finde that I have out of the customariness of that expression my self near the beginning said, And that most serene night, &c.

Andrew Marvell Birrell, Augustine, 1850-1933 1905

The transition from morality to customariness seems artificial and very arbitrary.

Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics. 1819-1870 1873

Hence the end of customariness is primarily and immediately, not the individual, but the moral whole.

Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics. 1819-1870 1873

In customariness the spirit enters into its true reality; the person finds the good outside of himself, as a reality to which he subordinates himself, as a moral world.

Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics. 1819-1870 1873

Thus Hegel, deviating from the ordinary usage of language, distinguishes morality [moralität] from customariness [sittlichkeit], conceiving the former as the merely subjective and individual morality, and the latter as civic or social morality.

Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics. 1819-1870 1873