wonted
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From Middle English woonted (“usual, customary”), from wont (“custom, habit, practice”), alteration of wone (“custom, habit, practice”), from Old English wuna (“custom, habit, practice", also "usual, wonted”), from Proto-Germanic *wunô (“custom, practice”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenə- (“to wish, love”). Cognate with Old Frisian wona, wuna (“custom”), Old High German giwona (“custom”). More at wont, wone.
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wonted (comparative more wonted, superlative most wonted)
- Usual, customary, habitual, or accustomed.
- 2008, William Dean Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes:
- Superficially, the affairs of 'Every Other Week' settled into their wonted form again, and for Fulkerson they seemed thoroughly reinstated.
- 2008, Lodovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso:
- But not with wonted welcome;—inly moved [...]
- 1929, Charles Dickens, Sketches by Boz: illustrative of every-day life and every-day people:
- Rose Villa has once again resumed its wonted appearance; the dining-room furniture has been replaced; the tables are as nicely polished as formerly; the horsehair chairs are ranged against the wall, as regularly as ever [...]
- 2008, William Dean Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes:
