wont to
Adjective Satellite
Meaning
in the habit of doing something
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Antonyms
Examples
Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.
Nature is wont to hide herself.
He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face.
That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which on the shaft that made him die Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high.
The vendors of flowers in the streets of London are wont to commend them to customers by crying: "All a blowing and a growing." It would be no small praise to Christians if we could say as much for them.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.