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- noun Plural form of
consuetude .
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Examples
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It is right that we should look before we leap, but it is gross misconduct to neglect duty to conform to the consuetudes of the hour.
No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes Rupert H. Wheldon
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Late, very late, we perceive that no arrangements, no introductions, no consuetudes or habits of society would be of any avail to establish us in such relations with them as we desire, but solely the uprise of nature in us to the same degree it is in them: then shall we meet as water with water: and if we should not meet them then, we shall not want them, for we are already they.
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Let us suck the sweetness of those affections and consuetudes [688] that grow near us.
Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842
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Let us suck the sweetness of those affections and consuetudes that grow near us.
Essays — First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842
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Let us suck the sweetness of those affections and consuetudes that grow near us.
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Late, -- very late, -- we perceive that no arrangements, no introductions, no consuetudes or habits of society, would be of any avail to establish us in such relations with them as we desire, -- but solely the uprise of nature in us to the same degree it is in them; then shall we meet as water with water; and if we should not meet them then, we shall not want them, for we are already they.
Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842
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Late, -- very late, -- we perceive that no arrangements, no introductions, no consuetudes or habits of society would be of any avail to establish us in such relations with them as we desire, -- but solely the uprise of nature in us to the same degree it is in them; then shall we meet as water with water; and if we should not meet them then, we shall not want them, for we are already they.
Essays — First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842
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Late, -- very late, -- we perceive that no arrangements, no introductions, no consuetudes or habits of society, would be of any avail to establish us in such relations with them as we desire, -- but solely the uprise of nature in us to the same degree it is in them; then shall we meet as water with water; and if we should not meet them then, we shall not want them, for we are already they.
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