Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being wonted or accustomed; customariness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The quality or state of being accustomed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
habit ;custom
Etymologies
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wonted + -ness
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Examples
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With the lady's departure an air of wontedness seemed to repossess the room and the two people who were left.
Hilda A Story of Calcutta Sara Jeannette Duncan
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That familiar odor of home and the wontedness of life made her isolation on her little atom of the unusual more pitiful.
The Portion of Labor Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman 1891
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Dick's imagination in the meantime was far less capable of drawing so much wontedness from his new condition.
Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school Thomas Hardy 1884
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Dick’s imagination in the meantime was far less capable of drawing so much wontedness from his new condition.
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