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habitual

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1. habitual - Noun

2. habitual - Adjective

3. habitual - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Formed or acquired by habit or use.

According to habit; established by habit; customary; constant; as, the habiual practice of sin.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. William James

I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice. Abraham Lincoln

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. William Hazlitt

Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must ask a stone to record its autobiography. Alfred North Whitehead

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness. Charles Baudelaire

Mere chance ... alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species. Charles Darwin

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