Wont

Pronunciation

• enPR: wŏnt, IPA: /wÉ’nt/, /wəʊnt/
• Rhymes: -əʊnt

Origin uncertain: apparently a conflation of wone and wont (participle adjective, below).

Full definition of wont

Noun

1. One’s habitual way of doing things, practice, custom.He awoke at the crack of dawn, as was his wont.
• MiltonThey are ... to be called out to their military motions, under sky or covert, according to the season, as was the Roman wont.
• 2006, Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red:With a simple-minded desire, and to rid my mind of this irrepressible urge, I retired to a corner of the room, as was my wont ...
• 1920, James Brown Scott, The United States of America: A Study in International Organization, page 142:As was also the wont of international conferences, a delegate from Pennsylvania, in this instance James Wilson, proposed the appointment of a secretary and nominated William Temple Franklin
• 1914, Items of interest - Page 83:Such conditions, having been the common practice for years, and, existing in a less degree in some localities to the present time, afford a tangible reason for a form of correlation that is more universal than it is the wont of the profession to admit ...

Old English Ä¡ewunod, past participle of Ä¡ewunian.

Adjective

1. (archaic) Accustomed or used (to or with a thing).
• ShakespeareI have not that alacrity of spirit,
  Nor cheer of mind, that I was wont to have.
• 1843, Thomas_Carlyle, , book 2, ch. XI, The Abbot’s WaysHe could read English Manuscripts very elegantly, elegantissime: he was wont to preach to the people in the English tongue, though according to the dialect of Norfolk, where he had been brought up ...
2. (designating habitual behaviour) Accustomed, apt (to doing something).He is wont to complain loudly about his job.Like a 60-yard Percy Harvin touchdown run or a Joe Haden interception return, Urban Meyer’s jaw-dropping resignation Saturday was, as he’s wont to say, “a game-changer.” — Sunday December 27, 2009, Stewart Mandel, INSIDE COLLEGE FOOTBALL, Meyer’s shocking resignation rocks college coaching landscape

Verb

1. (transitive, archaic) To make (someone) used to; to accustom.
2. (intransitive, archaic) To be accustomed.
• 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.2:But by record of antique times I finde
  That wemen wont in warres to beare most sway ....

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