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assuetudes

assuetudes is the plural of assuetude.

Meaning of assuetude

Noun

assuetude (countable and uncountable, plural assuetudes)

  1. (archaic) Accustomedness; habit.
    • Assuetude of things hurtful doth make them lose their force to hurt.1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted...
  2. The condition of an organism that has acquired tolerance of a drug or poison.
    • The boy had been his companion for years: and from assuetude had become, as it were, a part of himself.1836, Frederick Marryat, The Pirate, Chapter VII

Questions about assuetudes

What is assuetudes the plural of?
Assuetudes is the plural of assuetude.

Words near assuetudes in the dictionary

  1. assubjugated
  2. assubjugates
  3. assubjugating
  4. assuefaction
  5. assuetude
  6. assuetudes
  7. assumability
  8. assumable
  9. assumably
  10. assume
  11. assume makes an ass of you and me

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