2. Verb. (third-person singular of habit) ¹
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Definition of Habits
1. habit [v] - See also: habit
Medical Definition of Habits
1. Acquired or learned responses which are regularly manifested. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Habits
Literary usage of Habits
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of by Charles Darwin (1889)
"Difficulties of the theory of descent with modification—Absence or rarity of
transitional varieties—Transitions in habits of life— Diversified ..."
2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1909)
"In other words, we wished to find whether two relatively complex habits interfered
with each other in a less or a greater degree than two relatively simple ..."
3. Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey (1916)
"It certainly was a chief influence in forming habits of affectionate and ...
habits as Expressions of Growth. — We have already noted that plasticity is the ..."
4. Études sur la Queste del saint graal attribuée à Gautier Map by Albert Pauphilet, Colonel Bell Burr, Ernst Ziegler, Douglas Symmers (1921)
"Correcting Pernicious habits and Checking Morbid Impulses.—As the tendency of
the insane person's mind is toward neglect in personal appearance, disorder, ..."
5. Educational Psychology by Edward Lee Thorndike (1913)
"A man has some habits which are sporadic and isolated, some which are bunched
... A hierarchy of habits may be described in this way: (i) There is a certain ..."
6. Annual Report by Correctional Association of New York (1870)
"The formation of industrious habits in prisoners is an agency ... Unless prisoners
acquire habits of industry and a liking for some kind of labor," observes ..."
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