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wontsome

wontsome adjective: characterised or marked by wont; habitual, customary, usual.

Adjective

wontsome (comparative more wontsome, superlative most wontsome)

  1. (rare) Characterised 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
    • 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

Forms of wontsome

comparativemore wontsome
superlativemost wontsome

Origin of wontsome

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

Questions about wontsome

What does wontsome mean?
Wontsome means characterised or marked by wont; habitual, customary, usual.
What part of speech is wontsome?
Wontsome is an adjective.

Words near wontsome in the dictionary

  1. wonton
  2. wontons
  3. Wontroba
  4. Wontrobas
  5. wonts
  6. wontsome
  7. wonut
  8. wonuts
  9. Wonwondah
  10. Wonyip
  11. woo

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