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Definition of Habituating
1. habituate [v] - See also: habituate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Habituating
Literary usage of Habituating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of Lorenzo De'Medici, Called the Magnificent by William Roscoe (1797)
"... conceive that there is any better way of obtaining the " favour of heaven,
than by habituating yourself to a " performance of these and similar duties. ..."
2. The Literary Character: Or, The History of Men of Genius, Drawn from Their by Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (1881)
"ON habituating OURSELVES TO AN INDIVIDUAL PURSUIT. Two things in human life are
at continual variance, and without escaping from the one we must be ..."
3. Authentic Memoirs of John Sobieski, King of Poland by A[licia] T[indal] Palmer (1815)
"... over which the Castellan personally presided was that of gradually developing
the real interests of Poland; and habituating his sons to write and speak ..."
4. An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter by Thomas Adams, James Sherman (1848)
"A delight in evil, because it is evil ; an habituating of errors into manners ;
a turning of infirmity into necessity, by a desperate custom. ..."
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