wontsome

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adjective

Characterised or marked by wont; habitual, customary, usual.

OriginProto-Germanic *samaz ← Proto-Indo-European *somHós ← English wont →
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Meanings

adjectivewontsome (comparative more wontsome, superlative most wontsome)

comparative more wontsome · superlative most wontsome

  1. rareCharacterised or marked by wont; habitual, customary, usual.

    […] but our Lord comforteth us with his gentle words, thanked be he! and inviteth us from our wontsome (habitual) woe unto his great bliss, […]

    1873, Richard Morris, Old English Homilies and Homiletic Treatises
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    It may be that my wontsome [usual] fee for playing at parties then (1910–1909 — or even earlier?) was £21-0-0, & that I same-deemed (( agreed )) to play for Mrs Hunter for £10 or £12 or £15.

    2006, Malcolm Gillies, David Pear, Mark Carroll, Self-Portrait of Percy Grainger

Origin

  1. Englishwont
  2. Proto-Indo-European*sem-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*somHós
  4. Proto-Germanic*samaz
  5. Englishwontsome

From wont + -some. Compare Middle English wontsumnes (“custom, habit”, literally “wontsomeness”).

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Chicago

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