habitude

American  

[hab-i-tood, -tyood] / ˈhæb ɪˌtud, -ˌtyud /

noun

1. customary condition or character.

   a healthy mental habitude.

2. a habit or custom.

   traditional habitudes of kindliness and courtesy.

3. Obsolete. familiar relationship.

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habitude British  

/ ˈhæbɪˌtjuːd /

noun

1. rare habit or tendency

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Other Word Forms

• habitudinal adjective

Etymology

Origin of habitude

1375–1425; late Middle English < Middle French < Latin habitūdō. See habit ¹, -tude

Example Sentences

Bruhat’s first word of the night was habitude, which means one’s “usual disposition or mode of behavior or procedure.”

From New York Times • May 30, 2024

And since the providence of the gods is everywhere extended, a certain habitude or fitness is all that is requisite, in order to receive their beneficent communications.

From Arguments Of Celsus, Porphyry, And The Emperor Julian, Against The Christians Also Extracts from Diodorus Siculus, Josephus, and Tacitus, Relating to the Jews, Together with an Appendix by Taylor, Thomas

The said physician purged him canonically with Anticyran hellebore, by which medicine he cleansed all the alteration and perverse habitude of his brain.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I by Lodge, Henry Cabot

I have the habitude of the languages; they count me an expert.

From Faithful Margaret A Novel by Ashmore, Annie

The material they had to work upon was already democratical by instinct and habitude.

From Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American by Eliot, Charles William