Wonted Definition

wôntĭd, wōn-, wŭn-
adjective
Customary; habitual.
Webster's New World
Accustomed; habituated.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Wonted

  • 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 *wenÉ™- (“to wish, love"). Cognate with Old Frisian wona, wuna (“custom"), Old High German giwona (“custom"). More at wont, wone.

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Wonted Sentence Examples

  • However, he worked on with his wonted cheerfulness and joyousness.

  • Nuremberg was the first of the imperial towns to throw in its lot with the Reformation, and it embraced Protestantism with its wonted vigour about 1525.

  • Throughout 1580 Elizabeth encouraged Morton, with her wonted fickle treachery.

  • But fuller conceptions of evolution raise further difficulties for intuitionalism in its wonted forms. Knowledge cannot be divided into the two components - immediate certainties, precarious inferences.

  • Western Christendom wishes to call Christ God; even the Ritschlian school uses the wonted language in the light of its own definitions.

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Words Starting With

WWOWON

Words Ending With

DEDTED

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Words Starting With W and Ending With D

Starts With W & Ends With DStarts With WO & Ends With DStarts With W & Ends With ED

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With W6 Letter Words Ending With D