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> as lemmasof (†in) wont the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > in habitual or customary use [phrase] > as a habit or custom > usual or customary a1400 (a1325) (Gött.) l. 13693 For þiþer ȝode he ai vmstunt, þar to prai ofte was his wont [Vesp. was he wont]. 1530 J. Palsgrave 290/1 Wont or custome to an yvell thyng, amorse.1543 (1880) II. 24 Payand zeirly..the sowm of xxty bollis..with all..vther dew seruice, vse and wont.1548 f. clxxxxviv After our old wont, we came together vpon our othe in the churche of S. Maturyne.1548 E. Gest sig. L iv It was fyrst in wont that al the togethers assembled persones in ye church did communicat eche day.1550 H. Latimer sig. B.ii They [sc. the Pharisees] wolde be ordred by olde wont, customes, forfathers.1604 W. Shakespeare i. iv. 7 Then it drawes neere the season, Wherein the spirit held his wont to walke. View more context for this quotation1607 F. Beaumont iii. iv. sig. F2 Shee shall come in a white wastcoat, And—..And perhaps torne stockings, she hath left her old wount else.a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iii. i. 2 'Tis not his wont to be the hindmost man. View more context for this quotation1668 S. Pepys 10 Mar. (1976) IX. 111 As merry as that fellow Joyce could make us with his mad talking, after the old wont.1818 P. B. Shelley 13 A narrow space of level sand..Where 'twas our wont to ride.1822 W. Scott I. xi. 292 Her lodger..gave her, contrary to his wont, a signal to leave the room.1848 J. R. Lowell (ed. 2) liii His wont Is to say very sharp things and do very blunt.1850 J. H. Newman (1881) xii. 199 His commemoration is of daily wont in this neighbourhood.a1866 W. Whewell in J. M. Douglas (1881) 563 Can I forget that this for thee too is Christmas, Christmas not as of wont—Christmas not of the earth?1879 F. W. Farrar I. vi. xxi. 385 They were..liable, beyond the common wont of mobs, to sudden gusts of feeling and impulse.1903 14 July 11/2 Bosnian use and wont and Oriental ideas were taken into full consideration.1906 24 Nov. 665/2 The story is extravagant beyond the author's wont.in extended use.1581 A. Hall tr. Homer vi. 118 My heart to alter from his wont it also doth disdaine.1593 R. Hooker i. iii. 55 When things naturall in that regard forget their ordinary naturall woont.1637 C. Dow 128 Envy her selfe..would have lost her wont.a1854 H. Reed (1857) ix. 312 It is the wont of hollow things to echo.< |