Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A habitual tendency or way of behaving.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Customary manner or mode of living, feeling, or acting; habit.
- noun Relation; respect; state with regard to something else.
- noun Association; intercourse: familiarity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Habitual attitude; usual or accustomed state with reference to something else; established or usual relations.
- noun Habitual association, intercourse, or familiarity.
- noun Habit of body or of action.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic The essential character of one's
being orexistence ; native or normalconstitution ; mental or moral constitution; bodily condition; nativetemperament . - noun archaic Habitual
disposition ; normal or characteristic mode of behaviour, whether from habit or from nature - noun obsolete
Behaviour or manner of existence in relation to something else;relation ; respect. - noun obsolete In full habitude: fully, wholly, entirely; in all respects.
- noun obsolete habitual association; familiar relation; acquaintance;
familiarity ; intimacy; association; intercourse. - noun obsolete an associate; an acquaintance; someone with whom one is familiar.
- noun
Habit ;custom ;usage . - noun obsolete A chemical term used in the plural to denote the various ways in which one substance reacts with another; chemical reaction.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun habitual mode of behavior
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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I especially love this entry, and am trying to adopt a similar "habitude" chez moi, aussi.
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I especially love this entry, and am trying to adopt a similar "habitude" chez moi, aussi.
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But with regard to the divine bounty, and in what sense that is ascribed to God, and what kind of habitude of the divine will it denotes, this is not the place to inquire.
A Dissertation on Divine Justice 1616-1683 1967
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We are all, more or less, 'des animaux d'habitude'.
Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733
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The conference's opening speaker, Marshawn Evans, will do just that when she talks about "habitude" and how it can create a "great" you.
Media Newswire 2009
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Mais non, c'est juste une vieille habitude parmi les françaises!!!
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At home I don't have un casse-croute of cheese and bread before dinner, but in France it's une habitude.
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Soon a new habitude* was instilled in our daily routine: Le
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Soon a new habitude* was instilled in our daily routine: Le
French Word-A-Day: 2008
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Soon a new habitude* was instilled in our daily routine: Le
French Word-A-Day: 2008
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