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wont

  [wawnt, wohnt, wuhnt] adjective, noun, verb, wont, wont or wont⋅ed, wont⋅ing.
Use wont in a Sentence
–adjective
1. accustomed; used (usually fol. by an infinitive): He was wont to rise at dawn.
–noun
2. custom; habit; practice: It was her wont to walk three miles before breakfast.
–verb (used with object)
3. to accustom (a person), as to a thing.
4. to render (a thing) customary or usual (usually used passively).
–verb (used without object)
5. Archaic. to be wont.
Origin:
1300–50; (adj.) ME wont, woned, OE gewunod, ptp. of gewunian to be used to (see won 2 ); c. G gewöhnt; (v.) ME, back formation from wonted or wont (ptp.); (n.) appar. from conflation of wont (ptp.) with obs. wone wish, in certain stereotyped phrases

Related forms:
wontless, adjective

Synonyms:
1. habituated, wonted. 2. use.

Antonyms:
1. unaccustomed.

won't

  [wohnt, wuhnt]
contraction of will not: He won't see you now.
Usage note:
See contraction.
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wont   (wônt, wōnt, wŭnt)   
adj.  
  1. Accustomed or used: "The poor man is wont to complain that this is a cold world" (Henry David Thoreau).
  2. Likely: chaotic as holidays are wont to be.
n.  Customary practice; usage. See Synonyms at habit.
v.   wont or wont·ed, wont·ing, wonts

v.   tr.
To make accustomed to.
v.   intr.
To be in the habit of doing something.

[Middle English, past participle of wonen, to be used to, dwell; see won1.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Wont

Wont\, a. [For woned, p. p. of won, wone, to dwell, AS. wunian; akin to D. wonen, OS. wun?n, OHG, won?n, G. wohnen, and AS. wund, gewuna, custom, habit; orig. probably, to take pleasure; cf. Icel. una to dwell, to enjoy, Goth. wunan to rejoice (in unwunands sad); and akin to Skr. van to like, to wish. ????. Cf. Wean, Win.] Using or doing customarily; accustomed; habituated; used. "As he was wont to go." --Chaucer.

If the ox were wont to push with his horn. --Ex. xxi. 29.

Wont

Wont\, n. Custom; habit; use; usage.

They are . . . to be called out to their military motions, under sky or covert, according to the season, as was the Roman wont. --Milton.

From childly wont and ancient use. --Cowper.

Wont

Wont\, v. i. [imp. Wont, p. p. Wont, or Wonted; p. pr. & vb. n. Wonting.] To be accustomed or habituated; to be used.

A yearly solemn feast she wont to make. --Spenser.

Wont

Wont\, v. t. To accustom; -- used reflexively.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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wont 
"accustomed," O.E. wunod, pp. of wunian "to dwell, be accustomed," from P.Gmc. *wun- "to be content, to rejoice" (cf. O.S. wunon, O.Fris. wonia "to dwell, remain, be used to," O.H.G. wonen, Ger. wohnen "to dwell;" related to O.E. winnan, gewinnan "to win" (see win) and to wean. The noun meaning "habitual usage, custom" is attested from c.1300. Wonted is first attested 1408, an unconscious double pp.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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