diswont

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English

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Etymology

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From dis- +‎ wont.

Verb

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diswont (third-person singular simple present diswonts, present participle diswonting, simple past and past participle diswonted)

  1. (archaic) To deprive of wonted usage; to disaccustom.
    • 1628, Joseph Hall, Christian Liberty Laid Forth:
      As if my tongue and your ears could not easily be diswonted from our late parliamentary language

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for diswont”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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