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Antonyms for habitude

Grammar : Noun
Spell : hab-i-tood, -tyood
Phonetic Transcription : ˈhæb ɪˌtud, -ˌtyud

Definition of habitude

Origin :
  • "custom, habit," c.1400, from Old French habitude (14c.), from Latin habitudinem (nominative habitudo) "condition, appearance, habit," from past participle stem of habere (see habit (n.)). Related: Habitudinal (late 14c.).
  • noun custom
Example sentences :
  • Mrs. Maxim, according to the habitude of her sex, led in the conversation.
  • Extract from : « Dynamite Stories » by Hudson Maxim
  • I have the habitude of the languages; they count me an expert.
  • Extract from : « Faithful Margaret » by Annie Ashmore
  • He was vain of his experiments in profligacy, but they never grew to habitude.
  • Extract from : « The Life of Lord Byron » by John Galt
  • Such is the fearlessness, the insensibility to danger, which men acquire by the habitude of constant risk.
  • Extract from : « Astoria » by Washington Irving
  • He steeped himself in this bath of habitude, to which artificial regrets insinuated a tonic quality.
  • Extract from : « Against The Grain » by Joris-Karl Huysmans
  • To Mrs. Luttrell society was a necessity, as a thing becomes after a lifetime of habitude.
  • Extract from : « Mrs. Darrell » by Foxcroft Davis
  • The material they had to work upon was already democratical by instinct and habitude.
  • Extract from : « An English Grammar » by W. M. Baskervill and J. W. Sewell
  • And now she must provide bread for her children by her own “hand-labour,”—without the habitude of labour.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 » by Various
  • There was at work some great solvent making into naught the dross of custom and habitude.
  • Extract from : « The Long Roll » by Mary Johnston
  • What had formerly been habitude and trifling, was now grown seriousness and inclination.
  • Extract from : « Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) » by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Synonyms for habitude

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