Wont

/wʌnt/ · noun

Meaning

(archaic or humorous) One's habitual way of doing things; custom, habit, practice..

Definitions by Sense

1. (archaic or humorous) One's habitual way of doing things; custom, habit, practice.
2. Accustomed or used (to or with a thing), accustomed or apt (to do something).
3. (transitive, archaic) To make (someone) used to; to accustom.
4. (intransitive, archaic) To be accustomed (to something), to be in the habit (of doing something).

Example Sentences

He awoke at the crack of dawn, as was his wont.

With a simple-minded desire, and to rid my mind of this irrepressible urge, I retired to a corner of the room, as was my wont, but after a while I realized I couldn't jack off—proof well enough that I'd fallen in love again after twelve years!

[T]hey [Spartan youth] are by a ſudden alarum or watch-word, to be called out to their military motions, under ſky or covert, according to the ſeaſon, as was the Roman wont; […]

[…]when Sindbad the Seaman had related the history of what befel him in his sixth voyage, and all the company had dispersed, Sindbad the Landsman went home and slept as of wont.

Such conditions, having been the common practice for years, and, existing in a less degree in some localities to the present time, afford a tangible reason for a form of correlation that is more universal than it is the wont of the profession to admit; namely, that with the laity, dentistry and "the pulling of teeth," and the dentist and "the tooth puller," are very closely related subjects […]

As was also the wont of international conferences, a delegate from Pennsylvania, in this instance James Wilson, proposed the appointment of a secretary and nominated William Temple Franklin, whose selection would have been agreeable to the authorities of Pennsylvania, inasmuch as he was the grandson of its venerable chief executive.

He is wont to complain loudly about his job.

On ſome fond breaſt the parting ſoul relies, / Some pious drops the cloſing eye requires; / Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, / Ev'n in our Aſhes live their wonted Fires.

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Word Forms

• wonts
• wonting
• wonted

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