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habituation
Part of Speech: noun
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- We shall, then, devote a few words to the effects produced on the character by professional habituation to the labours of critical scholarship. - "Introduction to the Study of History", Charles V. Langlois Charles Seignobos.
- Much can be accomplished, however, by proper training and discipline in all cases, and, while the patient can never be completely cured, great improvement may be brought about by patient habituation under favorable circumstances. - "Psychotherapy", James J. Walsh.
- Once understood, they are for a sadness or a loathing, after the nature that understands them; till then, they are to the beholder such as they desire to appear, while under the fair outside lies a nature whose vulgarity, if the most thorough of changes do not in the meantime supervene, will manifest itself hideously on the approach of middle age, that is, by the time when habituation shall have destroyed the restraints of diffidence. - "Thomas Wingfold, Curate", George MacDonald.