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Assuetude

Assuetude \As"sue*tude\, n. [L. assuetudo, fr. assuetus accustomed.] Accustomedness; habit; habitual use.

Assuetude of things hurtful doth make them lose their force to hurt.
--Bacon.

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assuetude

n. accustomed; habit.

Usage examples of "assuetude".

The boy had been his companion for years: and from assuetude had become, as it were, a part of himself.

Rainscourt, to whose extreme beauty, from assuetude, he had before been blind, now appeared to him, after so long an absence, quite a different person from the one whom he had quitted with such indifference.