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Definition of Habitualness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Habitualness
Literary usage of Habitualness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rhythm of Life: And Other Essays by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell (1905)
"For he may unawares have allowed the habitualness that besets this multitudinous
life to take the pen from his hand and to write for him a page or a word ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"But true perfection . . . consists, as has been shown, in these three things :
in the uprightness, the universality, and habitualness of our obedience. ..."
3. A Grammar of the New Testament Greek by Alexander Buttmann (1891)
"1) this Aorist, used alike by poets and prose writers of every age, can indeed
express habitualness, but just as well and still more frequently the ..."
4. A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume (1874)
"... and that its ' determination' means no more than a certain habitualness in
this succession. Deprived of the benefit of ambiguous phraseology, then, ..."
5. The Bookman (1896)
"Of what is hackneyed she will have nothing ; " habitualness," she says, " compels
our refusals." Patent things, even patent truths, fail to arrest her ..."
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