wonts
/wʌnts/
wonts is the third-person singular simple present indicative of wont.
Meaning of wont
Verb
wont (third-person singular simple present wonts, present participle wonting, simple past and past participle wonted)
- To make (someone) used to; to accustom.
- I have heard it remarked by the old farmers, that when beasts are first transferred from one place to another, that if they keep them without food for two or three days, it will go far towards wonting them to their new situation.1830, [Joseph Plumb Martin], “Campaign of 1780”, in A Narrative of Some of the Adventures, Dangers and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier; Interspersed with Anecdotes of Incidents that Occurred...
- To be accustomed (to something), to be in the habit (of doing something).
- What be the ſweet delights of learning a treaſure, / That wont with Comick ſock to beautify / The painted Theaters, and fill with pleaſure / The liſtners eyes, and eares with melodie; […]c. 1580, Edmund Spenser, “The Teares of the Mvses[: Thalia]”, in Complaints: Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. VVhereof the Next Page Maketh Mention, London: Imprinted for...
Questions about wonts
- What is wonts the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
- Wonts is the third-person singular simple present indicative of wont.
- How do you pronounce wonts?
- Wonts is pronounced /wʌnts/.
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