Habitualize

Quick meaning: Habitualize is a verb meaning (US, law) To classify as a habitual offender (which has implications for sentencing).

Meaning

(US, law) To classify as a habitual offender (which has implications for sentencing).

More Meanings

1. To make habitual.
2. To cause to treat something as habitual; to familiarize or accustom.

Example Sentences

The real secret of exercise is to habitualize it, to make it as automatic as eating lunch.

I was much pleased too that Francis was placed at school at Lynchburg, as, besides giving me opportunities of seeing him, it will habitualize him to the neighborhood, and give him those early attachments of friendship and acquaintance which carry their impression and value through life.

Third, in all but two circuits [those encompassing Miami and Sarasota], the habitual offender sanctions are much more likely to be used against black offenders than non-black offenders, even after adjusting for prior record, the nature of the current offense and a variety of other factors that might have a bearing on the decision to habitualize.

Word Forms

• habitualizes
• habitualizing
• habitualized
• habitualise

Related Words

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