assuefaction

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assuefaction (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) habituation
    • 1716, Sir Thomas Browne, Christian Morals:
      Forget not how assuefaction unto any thing minorates the passion from it, how constant Objects loose their hints, and steal an inadvertisement upon us.