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adjective
1.
accustomed; habituated; used.
2.
customary, habitual, or usual: He took his wonted place in the library.
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Wonted
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adjective
1.
accustomed; used (usually followed 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.) Middle English wont, woned, Old English gewunod, past participle of gewunian to be used to (see won2); cognate with German gewöhnt; (v.) Middle English, back formation from wonted or wont (past participle); (noun) apparently from conflation of wont (past participle) with obsolete wone wish, in certain stereotyped phrases
1300–50; (adj.) Middle English wont, woned, Old English gewunod, past participle of gewunian to be used to (see won2); cognate with German gewöhnt; (v.) Middle English, back formation from wonted or wont (past participle); (noun) apparently from conflation of wont (past participle) with obsolete wone wish, in certain stereotyped phrases
Related forms
wont·less, adjective
Synonyms
1. habituated, wonted. 2. use.
1. habituated, wonted. 2. use.
Antonyms
1. unaccustomed.
1. unaccustomed.
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Word Origin & History
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
EXPAND wean. The noun meaning "habitual usage, custom" is attested from c.1300. Wonted is first attested 1408, an unconscious double pp.
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