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Assuetude means (archaic) Accustomedness; habit..
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/ˈæ.swɪˌtjuːd/ · noun
(archaic) Accustomedness; habit..
Assuetude of things hurtful doth make them lose their force to hurt.
The boy had been his companion for years: and from assuetude had become, as it were, a part of himself.
My flesh writhed like the glutinous flesh of a serpent. Slowly moved, and stopped: -- then was a sweep -- and a swirl -- and a pause! then a swirl -- and a sweep -- and a pause! -- then steady industry of labour on the monstrous brazen axis, as the husbandman plods by the plough; then increase of zest, assuetude of a fledgeling to the wing -- then intensity -- then the last light ecstasy of flight.
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Assuetude means (archaic) Accustomedness; habit..
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Assuetude of things hurtful doth make them lose their force to hurt.
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